close, end, conclude, finish, complete, terminate mean to bring or come to a stopping point or limit.

close usually implies that something has been in some way open as well as unfinished.

end conveys a strong sense of finality.

conclude may imply a formal closing (as of a meeting).

finish may stress completion of a final step in a process.

complete implies the removal of all deficiencies or a successful finishing of what has been undertaken.

terminate implies the setting of a limit in time or space.

infer, deduce, conclude, judge, gather mean to arrive at a mental conclusion.

infer implies arriving at a conclusion by reasoning from evidence; if the evidence is slight, the term comes close to surmise.

deduce often adds to infer the special implication of drawing a particular inference from a generalization.

conclude implies arriving at a necessary inference at the end of a chain of reasoning.

judge stresses a weighing of the evidence on which a conclusion is based.

gather suggests an intuitive forming of a conclusion from implications.