conjecture

In a sentence

Six example sentences with conjecture, each labelled with its topic.

• Without a second sample, the age of the sediment remains conjecture, and the team says so plainly in the paper.

  Science

• The defense argued that motive was pure conjecture, since no witness had placed anyone near the office that evening.

  Law

• Her forecast rests on conjecture about next year's harvest, because the ministry has published no rainfall data since March.

  Economics

• Why the city was abandoned remains conjecture, since no record survives from the decade it emptied.

  History

• The play's authorship is conjecture, resting on a handwriting sample and two lines that echo a known poem.

  Literature

• The takeover rumor was conjecture built on a single lunch, yet the shares rose eight percent before the denial.

  Finance

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Each source is a published word list that contains conjecture. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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