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1con·jec·ture Listen to audio/kənˈʤɛkɚ/ noun
plural con·jec·tures
formal : an opinion or idea formed without proof or sufficient evidence : guess [count] The biography includes conjectures about the writer's earliest ambitions. a conjecture about the extent of the injury [noncount] Your plan is based on (nothing more than) conjecture. Most of the book is conjecture, not fact. The criminal's motive remains a matter of conjecture. [=people can only guess about the criminal's motive; no one knows the criminal's motive]
— con·jec·tur·al Listen to audio /kənˈʤɛkərəl/ adjective [more conjectural; most conjectural]
Most of the book is conjectural.

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