Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for conjecture
The synonym for conjecture recorded in this bank is speculation, in the sense "a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for conjecture
- speculationnoun, in the sense "a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for conjecture.
a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
He dismissed it as mere conjecture.
The true synonym
speculation
Same sentence, swapped: He dismissed it as mere speculation.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where conjecture stands in the sentence above.
- framework
- hypothetical
- premise
Where conjecture turns up in the game
conjecture is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where conjecture is the trap
- modelnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is framework, in the sense "a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process", with conjecture sitting one tile away.
Play conjecture
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so conjecture reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because thinking and knowing is the company conjecture keeps.
The same bank, read from both sides
conjecture is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.