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6 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb regard something as probable or likely
verb consider obligatory; request and expect
verb look forward to the probable occurrence of
originFrom Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”).
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