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Conjecture
Today’s word is Scrutinize.
What it means
- noun
A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
“I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.”
- noun
A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
“The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.”
- noun
A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
Where it comes from
Conjecture comes from Latin conicere, to throw together, from con, together, and jacere, to throw. You throw the pieces you have into one possible account.
In a sentence
- However, that was just my conjecture.by AlanF_US, Tatoeba
- That's pure conjecture.by CK, Tatoeba
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