gaugeverb(JUDGE)
The agency misgauged what the markets were thinking.
Senior executives had completely misgauged the direction in which the industry was moving.
The report stated that the agency "badly misgauged" the financial meltdown.
The acoustics of the hall had been misgauged by the artists, so that the piano was initially too loud.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Analysing and evaluating
adjudication
analysable
analyse
analyser
analyst
assign
dive
have the measure of someone/somethingidiom
inspect
inspection
interpret
interpretable
interpretive
microscope
reinterpret
reinterpretation
reinvestigate
reinvestigation
research
weigh

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