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Speculation :: Speculation (n.) A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes..

Speculation :: Speculation (n.) Examination by the eye; view.

Daydream :: Daydream (n.) A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope.

Deal :: Deal (n.) An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains.

Dilettant :: Dilettant (a.) Of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation..

Pan :: Pan (v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly..

Reimburse :: Reimburse (v. t.) To make restoration or payment of an equivalent to (a person); to pay back to; to indemnify; -- often reflexive; as, to reimburse one's self by successful speculation..

Speculation :: Speculation (n.) Power of sight.

Speculation :: Speculation (n.) Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.

Speculation :: Speculation (n.) Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits..

Owing :: Owing (P. p. & a.) Had or experienced as a consequence, result, issue, etc.; ascribable; -- with to; as, misfortunes are often owing to vices; his failure was owing to speculations..

Transcendent :: Transcendent (a.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect..

Plunge :: Plunge (n.) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.

Rush :: Rush (v. i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation..

Venture :: Venture (n.) An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

Finedrawn :: Finedrawn (a.) Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations..

Speculator :: Speculator (n.) One who engages in speculation; one who buys and sells goods, land, etc., with the expectation of deriving profit from fluctuations in price..

Speculatory :: Speculatory (a.) Exercising speculation; speculative.

Freethinking :: Freethinking (a.) Exhibiting undue boldness of speculation; skeptical.

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

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