assess

assess
verb
1 form an opinion
ADVERB
▪ fully
▪ accurately, correctly, properly
▪ carefully
▪

She carefully assessed the situation.

▪ quickly
▪ directly
▪ independently
▪

The studies were independently assessed by several researchers.

▪ critically
VERB + ASSESS
▪ attempt to, try to
▪ help to
▪ be difficult to
▪

It is difficult to fully assess the damage.

PREPOSITION
▪ for
▪

She decided to get her daughter assessed for dyslexia.

2 amount/value
ADVERB
▪ accurately, correctly, properly
VERB + ASSESS
▪ attempt to, try to
▪ be difficult to
▪

It is difficult to assess the building's value properly without seeing it.

PREPOSITION
▪ at
▪

The legal costs have been assessed at $75 000.

Assess is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑condition
Assess is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ability, ↑chance, ↑competence, ↑condition, ↑consequence, ↑damage, ↑degree, ↑effect, ↑effectiveness, ↑efficiency, ↑extent, ↑feasibility, ↑frequency, ↑impact, ↑implication, ↑importance, ↑incidence, ↑influence, ↑injury, ↑level, ↑likelihood, ↑magnitude, ↑merit, ↑nature, ↑need, ↑patient, ↑perception, ↑performance, ↑probability, ↑problem, ↑proficiency, ↑progress, ↑prospect, ↑quality, ↑relationship, ↑relevance, ↑reliability, ↑response, ↑risk, ↑role, ↑scale, ↑severity, ↑significance, ↑situation, ↑skill, ↑strength, ↑success, ↑suitability, ↑usefulness, ↑utility, ↑validity, ↑viability, ↑weakness, ↑worth

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  • assess — [v1] evaluate, determine appraise, apprise, assay, check*, check out*, compute, determine, dig it*, estimate, figure*, fix, gauge, guess, judge, nick*, peg*, rate, reckon, set, size*, size up, survey, take measure*, valuate, value, weigh; concept …   New thesaurus

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