beg vs surmise

beg

verb
  • In the phrase beg the question: to assume. 

  • To request the help of someone, often in the form of money. 

  • To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat. 

  • To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction. 

  • In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question). 

noun
  • A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey. 

  • The act of begging; an imploring request. 

surmise

verb
  • To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises. 

noun
  • Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess. 

  • Reflection; thought; posit. 

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