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Meaning of speculate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  speculate
      v 1: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;
           "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
           [syn: {speculate}, {theorize}, {theorise}, {conjecture},
           {hypothesize}, {hypothesise}, {hypothecate}, {suppose}]
      2: talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way
         and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to
         reach a conclusion; "We were speculating whether the
         President had to resign after the scandal"
      3: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the
         afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of
         God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to
         observe and start to excogitate" [syn: {chew over}, {think
         over}, {meditate}, {ponder}, {excogitate}, {contemplate},
         {muse}, {reflect}, {mull}, {mull over}, {ruminate},
         {speculate}]
      4: invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to
         live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am
         speculating" [syn: {speculate}, {job}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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