suspect
to doubt or regard as possibly true
Roots
- spec / spic: look or see
- sub-: under, below, or after
Other words with the spec / spic root
- circumspect: cautious and careful
- conspicuous: easy to notice or clearly visible
- inspection: careful looking or examination
- perspicacious: keenly perceptive
- perspicacity: keenness of understanding or insight
- specious: seemingly plausible but actually misleading
- spectacle: something striking to see
- spectacles: glasses used for seeing
Suspect is looking with mistrust: the mind sees enough to pause but not enough to trust.
She began to suspect that the shortcut was hiding a harder rule.