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Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock..

Hopeless :: Hopeless (a.) Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.

Expectant :: Expectant (a.) Waiting in expectation; looking fo.

Unconscionable :: Unconscionable (a.) Not conscionable; not conforming to reason; unreasonable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; inordinate; as, an unconscionable person or demand; unconscionable size..

Promise :: Promise (a.) That which causes hope, expectation, or assurance; especially, that which affords expectation of future distinction; as, a youth of great promise..

Unfounded :: Unfounded (a.) Having no foundation; baseless; vain; idle; as, unfounded expectations..

Hope :: Hope (n.) One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good..

Expectingly :: Expectingly (adv.) In a state of expectation.

Bear :: Bear (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.

Notional :: Notional (a.) Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical; fanciful; as, a notional man..

Expectation :: Expectation (n.) The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

Expectation :: Expectation (n.) The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.

Chance :: Chance (v. i.) To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation..

Happen :: Happen (v. i.) To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

Inexpectation :: Inexpectation (n.) Absence of expectation.

Expectation :: Expectation (n.) The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank..

Incident :: Incident (a.) Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.

Joy :: "Joy (n.) The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight..

Expectative :: Expectative (a.) Constituting an object of expectation; contingent.

Expectancy :: Expectancy (n.) The act of expecting ; expectation.

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