All 6 Uses of
speculate
in
Arrowsmith
- Clif Clawson, with a chasm of yawning, speculated, "Praying in the lab!"
Chpt 3 *speculated = guessed
- Yet these speculations never checked his work.
Chpt 12speculations = thoughts
- Evenings, in little restaurants, Leora and he would speculate about it.
Chpt 26speculate = think
- Martin had read of that research before he had thought of going to McGurk; on his arrival he was thrilled to have it chronicled by the master himself; but when he had heard Holabird refer to it a dozen times he was considerably less thrilled, and he speculated whether all his life Holabird would go on being "the man—YOU remember—the chap that did the big stunt, whatever it was, with locomotion in dogs or something."
Chpt 27speculated = wondered
- Martin speculated still more as he perceived that all his colleagues were secretly grouped in factions.
Chpt 27speculated = thought
- Perched on a cloud, watching them, was the divine Tubbs, a glory of whiskers, ready to blast any of the little men who stopped being earnest and wasted time on speculation about anything which he had not assigned to them.
Chpt 29speculation = thinking
Definition:
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(speculate as in: don't know, but I'll speculate) to think about, wonder, guess or theorize with much uncertainty