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Exact Match:

speculate

to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"

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"

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"

Synonyms:

• be abstracted,
• be caught short,
• be short,
• belong,
• brood,
• bucket,
• bucketshop,
• buy in,
• buy into,
• call,
• cast a horoscope,
• cast a nativity,
• cast lots,
• cerebrate,
• chew over,
• chew the cud,
• cogitate,
• consider,
• contemplate,
• cut lots,
• cut the cards,
• debate,
• deliberate,
• deposit margin,
• digest,
• divine,
• dope,
• dope out,
• dowse for water,
• draw lots,
• draw straws,
• entertain a theory,
• espouse a theory,
• evaluate,
• excogitate,
• financier,
• forebode,
• forecast,
• foresee,
• foretell,
• fortune-tell,
• gamble,
• game,
• go long,
• guess,
• hariolate,
• have a theory,
• hold on,
• hypothesize,
• introspect,
• invest,
• invest in,
• judge,
• lay out money,
• lot,
• make a killing,
• make a prediction,
• make a prognosis,
• make a prophecy,
• make a scoop,
• make an investment,
• margin up,
• match coins,
• meditate,
• miss the market,
• mull over,
• muse,
• operate,
• overstay the market,
• perpend,
• place,
• play,
• play around with,
• play at dice,
• play the market,
• play the ponies,
• play with,
• plow back into,
• plunge,
• ponder,
• ponder over,
• postulate,
• predict,
• prefigure,
• presage,
• prognosticate,
• prophesy,
• put,
• pyramid,
• raffle off,
• read palms,
• read tea leaves,
• read the future,
• reason,
• reflect,
• reinvest,
• review,
• risk,
• ruminate,
• scalp,
• scoop the market,
• shoot craps,
• sink,
• sink money in,
• soothsay,
• sport,
• stag,
• stag the market,
• study,
• take a chance,
• take a flier,
• tell fortunes,
• tell the future,
• theorize,
• toss,
• toy with,
• trade on margin,
• vaticinate,
• venture,
• wager,
• weigh,
• wonder about