conjecture

１．con + jecture ですかね。想像できそうでできない。。。

Forecasting, guesswork and conjecture – (from the Investment Week)

投資ニュースの見出しです。forecast と guesswork と並んでいることから想像すると、、、conjecture の意味は？

Trump lawyers might be penalized over Michigan election lawsuit based on ‘conjecture’ – DETROIT — A federal judge considering whether to order sanctions against some of former President Trump’s lawyers spent hours Monday drilling into details about an unsuccessful lawsuit that challenged Michigan’s 2020 election results. The lawsuit alleging widespread fraud was eventually dropped after the judge found nothing but “speculation and conjecture” that votes for Trump somehow were destroyed or switched to votes for Joe Biden, who won Michigan by 2.8 percentage points. ( from Portland Press Herald)

speculation and conjecture セットで覚えてもいいですね。

There has been a lot of conjecture in the media recently about the marriage.

だれかの結婚についてたくさんの conjecture があるんですね。

We will never know exactly how she died we can only conjecture.

彼女がどのように亡くなったかは永遠の謎。できるのは conjecture のみ。

That was a conjecture, not a fact.

ずばり。

This may be true or partly true, we are all conjecturing here.

よくあることです。

２．では、いつものように英英辞典と英和辞典の意味を確認します。

a guess about something based on how it seems not on proof

to guess based on appearance of a situation and not on proof

an opinion or judgement that is not based on proof, a guess

a conjecture is a conclusion that is based on information that is not certain or complete

憶測、推測

（数学の）予想

今日の単語は

conjecture 憶測、推測

でした

1週間前の単語は、、、今日の単語 dearth 不足、でした。