appraise, grade, establish, settle on, profile, define, pin, price, value, review, redefine, report, rank, judge, rate, resolve, characterize, distinguish, declare, determine, prove, confirm, deem (inadequate), clinch, decide on, agree on, arrive at (a decision/value), revise (earlier estimates), resolve (contradictions), clear up (inconsistencies), conclude, testify, view in a new light, give it a (mark)
concentrate, inspect, follow, absorb, see, peer, study, survey, witness, scrutinize, examine, monitor, observe, fix one's gaze, view, size up, regard, notice, detect, perceive, decipher, check out, recognize, look at/into, sharpen one's focus, suspend judgment, dissect, present (a point of view), make a point/an observation
analyze, break down, reformulate, compare, detect, discern, vet, authenticate, research, assess, verify, decipher, dispute, bank on, distinguish, root (one's knowledge in vast reading), base, deem, pick apart, find fault (with a premise), sort out (fact from fiction), gauge (authenticity), prove, confirm, validate (a theory), corroborate, identify (source/date), take stock, discriminate between, look over, detect (holes in the argument)
cast, sharpen, establish, slice through, define, highlight, illumine, illuminate, identify, redefine, take stock of, correct, specify, distinguish, discriminate, pinpoint, reiterate, clear up, tweak (an earlier theory), fine-tune (one's reasoning), hone (one's analysis), spell out (fine points), fill in (details), reorganize (one's priorities), demystify, couch, reach (a conclusion), expand on (particulars), elucidate, shed light on, explicate, make clear
establish, settle on, define, cinch, close, verify, solve, summarize, realize, sum up, resolve, decide, back up, determine, prove, confirm, corroborate, agree on, conclude, validate, ascertain, encapsulate, disprove, find, clear up, draw (a conclusion), arrive at (a conclusion/solution), come to a decision, finalize, recap, recapitulate
settle on, name, define, put into words, pick out, make out, identify, authenticate, dub, locate, designate, recognize, distinguish, isolate, confirm, stack up, narrow (down), diagnose, pinpoint, single out, appoint, commit, make sense of, establish the identity of, fix (an identity), put a name to, verify (a derivation), make clear
theorize, scrutinize, review, claim, verify, evaluate, critique, argue, propose, excerpt, put forward, prove, assert, conference, hypothesize, postulate, posit, submit (results for scrutiny), undergo (review), present (a paper), comment on, pose (questions), defend (a dissertation), replicate (results), state, publish (in a scholarly journal), subject to (criticism), peer-review, corroborate (results), authenticate (results), substantiate (claims)