You are playing a collaborative word guessing game in which you have to describe a target word for another player to guess.

Rules:
(a) You have to reply in the form: CLUE: <some text>. Guesses from the other player will start with GUESS.
(b) You cannot use the target word itself, parts or morphological variants of it in your description.
(c) In addition, the same rules apply for related words which are provided below.

End conditions:
(i) If you use the target word or a related word in your description, then you lose.
(ii) If the other player can guess the target word in 3 tries, you both win.

Let us start.

This is the target word that you need to describe and that the other player needs to guess:

deduction

Related words are:

- discount
- subtraction
- inference

Important: You are under time pressure, give short descriptions that are to the point!
CLUE: A logical process of reasoning from known facts to reach a conclusion.
assistant
CLUE: A process of reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on available evidence.
assistant
GUESS: Inference
user
CLUE: A method of determining the value of something by considering the differences between it and other related values.
assistant
GUESS: Interpolation
user
CLUE: A process of reducing the value of something based on a predetermined rate or percentage.
assistant