Tuesday, December 18, 2012

guest, guessed

Guest or guest means a visitor--
Grandpa will be our guest for the holiday dinner.
Make sure to be a good guest, and eat everything that's offered to you. 

Guessed or guessed ( rhymes with guest ) is the past tense of "guess", meaning to arrive at an answer or solution using conjecture or a "hunch", usually when lacking information--
He guessed when he didn't know the answer to a test question.
He guessed wrong the first time, but then he got it right.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"We guessed that our guest would enjoy fruitcake as much as we do, and we were right!"

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