Speculate is valid Scrabble Word

Is speculate a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for SPECULATE in dictionary:

VERB:

to make conjectures or guesses
form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence
invest in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss
guess, conjecture
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 speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.
To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
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.
To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a thing.
to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion

reflect deeply on a subject
invest at a risk

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to meditate on or ponder a subject; reflect; to review something idly or casually and often inconclusively

Words related to SPECULATE

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Words that contain SPECULATE

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How to use SPECULATE in a sentence

It would be interesting to speculate on what might have been averted, had Mirabeau lived.
Looking down, Jack could detect moving lights, the source of which he could only speculate upon.
I like to look a little into the future and speculate as to our two countries.
This makes interesting reading for children, but Brentano did not lose sight of adults, including those who like to speculate as to the origin of the legend.
How his brain may have reeled, and his heart ached, it is not for me to speculate.
The future will bring some kind of solution, but I am too tired to speculate upon it.
Of course, if I speculate in a book, and buy it out and out, subject to the risks, the case will be different.
Caesar himself was probably more suited by nature to reason on facts immediately before him than to speculate on abstract principles.
To guess at the direction of the new line is not to express a British opinion, but to speculate upon the opinion of France.
In her contemplation of the luminous figure of the Only Young Man, she had ceased to speculate concerning her own misfortunes.

Why the smell of burning leather should be offensive to spirits it would perhaps be fruitless to speculate on.
We can scarcely forbear to speculate upon the great results that are to flow from this decisive victory.
It was extremely difficult, indeed, for ignorant persons to account for, or speculate upon, this strange and frightful phenomenon.
You lie on your back on a rock in a pasture on the top of some bare hill at midnight, and speculate on the height of the starry canopy.
He persuaded Hunter to rent a farm in addition to his own, and lent him money to speculate largely in breeding fancy sheep.
On the vote of Aristides it may be more difficult to speculate.
But he had no time at the moment to speculate on this very easy victory.
He began to speculate upon what would happen afterwards, wondering whether by any means the murder could be discovered, and if in that case it could ever be traced to him.
But I will not speculate on his speculations, but come to facts.
He then began to speculate as to just what a body would do a thousand or ten thousand miles from the earth.
And it is hardly profitable or decent to speculate as to her interest in him.
Blaine had been nominated in 1876, it is now idle to speculate.
Conrad pauses to explain, to speculate, to look about.
In the absence of such work we can only speculate on the problem.
He pretended to himself to speculate as to the identity of her husband.
Their aim was no longer to speculate about the soul, but to find the psychical elements and the constant laws which control their connections.
It would be fruitless to speculate upon what might have been the consequences to the country had he been then chosen.
They said they had bought me to speculate on, and were not able to lose what they had paid for me.
It is permissible to speculate on their stories and dispositions.

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