surmise

  1. Noun.  Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, surmises of jealousy or of envy.
  2. Noun.  Reflection; thought; posit.
  3. Verb.  To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.

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