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Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–).  The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.  1993.
 
intuit (v.)
 
 
(pronounced in-TOO-it or sometimes IN-too-it) is a back-formation, now more than a century old, from intuition. It is a Standard verb meaning “to understand or learn by means of intuition”: She correctly intuited what he would say.  1
 
 
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