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Suppose

To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result?

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Anticipate 76% connected

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Assume 76% connected

To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Expect 76% connected

To wait for; to await.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Imply 76% connected

To infold or involve; to wrap up.

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Presume 76% connected

To assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake without leave or authority previously obtained.

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Speculate 76% connected

To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 12

Construct 76% connected

To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Develop 76% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Explicate 76% connected

Evolved; unfolded.

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Formulate 76% connected

To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

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Posit 76% connected

To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

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Postulate 76% connected

Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

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Premise 76% connected

A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

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Premiss 76% connected

Premise.

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Reconstruct 76% connected

To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.

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Retrace 76% connected

To trace back, as a line.

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Straddle 76% connected

To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.

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Suspect 76% connected

Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

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Idealogue 74% connected

One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Idealogue 74% connected

One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Opinion 74% connected

That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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Opinion 74% connected

That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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Theory 74% connected

A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Theory 74% connected

A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

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Conjecture 92% connected

An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Guess 92% connected

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hypothecate 92% connected

To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of pos…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Imagine 92% connected

To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Opine 92% connected

To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Presuppose 92% connected

To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reckon 92% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Say 92% connected

Saw.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Speculate 92% connected

To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Theorize 92% connected

To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Think 92% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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