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conjecture
A	noun
	1	conjecture
				reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚cognition; knowledge; noesis ╚process; cognitive process; mental process; operation; cognitive operation ╚higher cognitive process ╚thinking; thought; cerebration; intellection; mentation ╚reasoning; logical thinking; abstract thought ╚conjecture ╚supposition; supposal ╚theorization; theorisation
	2	speculation, conjecture
				a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); "speculations about the outcome of the election"; "he dismissed it as mere conjecture"
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚cognition; knowledge; noesis ╚content; cognitive content; mental object ╚idea; thought ╚concept; conception; construct ╚hypothesis; possibility; theory ╚speculation, conjecture
	3	guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis
				a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚message; content; subject matter; substance ╚opinion; view ╚guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis ╚divination
B	verb
	1	speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose
				to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
		Category Tree: think; cogitate; cerebrate ╚judge ╚expect; anticipate ╚speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose

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