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If you s________ about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen .If you speculate about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen .Critics of the project speculate about how many hospitals could be built instead.It would be unfair to speculate on the reasons for her resignation.The doctors speculate that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a blow on the head.The reader can speculate what will happen next.The President has gone out of his way to dismiss speculation over the future of the economy minister.I had published my speculations about the future of the universe in the Review of Modern Physics. verbIf you speculate about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen .Critics of the project speculate about how many hospitals could be built instead.It would be unfair to speculate on the reasons for her resignation.The doctors speculate that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a blow on the head.The reader can speculate what will happen next.The President has gone out of his way to dismiss speculation over the future of the economy minister.I had published my speculations about the future of the universe in the Review of Modern Physics.If someone speculates financially, they buy property, stocks, or shares, in the hope of being able to sell them again at a higher price and make a profit .Big farmers are moving in, in order to speculate with rising land prices.The banks speculated in property whose value has now dropped. B2

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speculate speculatesspeculatingspeculatedspeculationspeculations

query	If you s________ about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen .If you speculate about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen . Critics of the project speculate about how many hospitals could be built instead. It would be unfair to speculate on the reasons for her resignation. The doctors speculate that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a blow on the head. The reader can speculate what will happen next. The President has gone out of his way to dismiss speculation over the future of the economy minister. I had published my speculations about the future of the universe in the Review of Modern Physics.
word	speculate
full-definition	verb If you speculate about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen . Critics of the project speculate about how many hospitals could be built instead. It would be unfair to speculate on the reasons for her resignation. The doctors speculate that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a blow on the head. The reader can speculate what will happen next. The President has gone out of his way to dismiss speculation over the future of the economy minister. I had published my speculations about the future of the universe in the Review of Modern Physics. If someone speculates financially, they buy property, stocks, or shares, in the hope of being able to sell them again at a higher price and make a profit . Big farmers are moving in, in order to speculate with rising land prices. The banks speculated in property whose value has now dropped.
inflections	speculatesspeculatingspeculatedspeculationspeculations
cefr-level	B2

Speculate Happen Make Future Guesses Nature Identity Speculation