Synonyms of the word

hypothecate

• v. (transitive) To pledge (something) as surety for a loan; to pawn, mortgage.
• v. (politics, Britain) To designate a new tax or tax increase for a specific expenditure.

anticipate

• v. (transitive) To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.
• v. to take up or introduce (something) prematurely.
• v. to know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
• v. to eagerly wait for (something).

conjecture

• n. (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
• n. (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
• n. (mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not…
• n. (obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.
• v. (formal, intransitive) To guess; to venture an unproven idea.

expect

• v. To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or…
• v. To consider obligatory or required.
• v. To consider reasonably due.
• v. (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.

hypothesise

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To believe or assert on uncertain grounds.

hypothesize

• v. (US) Alternative form of hypothesise.

pledge

• v. To make a solemn promise (to do something).
• v. To deposit something as a security; to pawn.
• v. (transitive) To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.
• n. A solemn promise to do something.
• n. Something given by a person who is borrowing money etc to the person he has borrowed it from, to be kept…
• n. A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved.
• n. A security to guarantee payment of a debt.
• n. A drinking toast.
• n. (with the) A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.

speculate

• v. (intransitive) To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
• v. (intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
• v. (intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or…

suppose

• v. (transitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
• v. (transitive) To theorize or hypothesize.
• v. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
• v. To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
• v. To put by fraud in the place of another.

theorise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of theorize.

theorize

• v. To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.
• v. To speculate.