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Speculate Meaning Spekjuleɪt V.沉思;思索 Winner Game 我们不必去想谁可能是这场比赛的赢家 Reflect

Front speculate
Pron ['spekjuleɪt]
Back 【speculate】
v.沉思;思索
We don't need to speculate about the possible winner in the game.
我们不必去想谁可能是这场比赛的赢家。
Vocab
speculatereflect deeply on a subject

When you speculate, you use what you know to make a prediction about an outcome, like when you speculate that the injury of two key players will prevent your favorite team from going far in the playoffs this year.

The verb speculate has a specialized meaning in the world of finance — it means to take a financial risk, in the hopes of monetary gain. For example, a business owner may speculate that a brand-new kind of frozen yogurt will be really popular, so she buys a huge order of it for her ice cream store. Someone who speculates goes looking for next big thing, as seen in the word's Latin origin, speculatus, meaning "to spy out, examine."

All forms of 'speculate' will appear on average once every 151 pages.
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