speculate

To engage in a course of reasoning often based on inconclusive evidence; conjecture or theorize.

To engage in the buying or selling of a commodity with an element of risk on the chance of profit.

To assume to be true without conclusive evidence.

To view as from a watch-tower or observatory; observe.

To take a discriminating view of; consider attentively; speculate upon; examine; inspect: as, to speculate the nature of a thing.

To pursue truth by thinking, as by mathematical reasoning, by logical analysis, or by the review of data already collected.

To take a discursive view of a subject or subjects; note diverse aspects, relations, or probabilities; meditate; conjecture: often implying absence of definite method or result.

To invest money for profit upon an uncertainty; take the risk of loss in view of possible gain; make a purchase or purchases, as of something liable to sudden fluctuations in price or to rapid deterioration, on the chance of selling at a large advance: as, to speculate in stocks.

To consider attentively.

To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize