Suspect
Lin Yutang writing in The Wisdom of India says: I strongly suspect that the average reader does not suspect India is rich in culture, as creative, and as imaginative and with wit and humour as any China has to offer, and that India was Chinas teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the worlds teacher in trigonometry, quadratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.
What does "suspect" mean in the above passage?
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It means to believe, to think that this is true. Lin Yutang believes it is highly probable (the modifier strongly on suspect makes this a higher probability) that many readers do not believe India has a rich culture.
- It means to believe, to think that this is true.
- Lin Yutang believes it is highly probable (the modifier strongly on suspect makes this a higher probability) that many readers do not believe India has a rich culture.
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It means to believe, to think that this is true. Lin Yutang believes it is highly probable (the modifier strongly on suspect makes this a higher probability) that many readers do not believe India has a rich culture.
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