All 3 Uses of
conjecture
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- What would happen, they conjectured, if they simply went on assuming their children would do everything.†
p. 98.5 *conjectured = concluded or guessed based on inconclusive evidence
- "What a bold conjecture," she said.†
p. 160.1
- But all his conjectures had been about space and air, easily put aside for the pleasures of hearing her footsteps and soft movements next door, of waking in the night to Jack's distant cry.†
p. 314.5conjectures = guesses (opinions based on inconclusive evidence)
Definition:
a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence; or the act of forming of such a conclusion or opinion
A conjecture can be widely believed, but the word is also frequently used to imply that evidence is insufficient to support a belief.