Speculation, speculator, speculative, speculator, speculation, speculator and speculate are the same root words. In this article we will talk about the meaning and morphological features of the word “speculate”.
The meaning of the word "speculate"
To understand what the word "speculate" means, we will open an explanatory dictionary.
To speculate is:
- Engage in speculation (Marianna made a living by speculating in poor-quality clothes and shoes).
- Use anything for the purpose of speculation (Currency exchange offices speculate on the difference in exchange rates).
- Using something for unseemly purposes (Do not speculate with the memory of this grief).
Speculation is trading for profit.
Morphological characteristics, conjugation
The word we are studying answers the question “what to do?”, Which means it expresses some kind of action. Therefore, “speculate” is a verb. Moreover, the verb is intransitive, imperfect form.
| Face | Past time | Present | Future |
| 1 | Not true, I did not speculate with bonds. Last year, we successfully speculated in financial markets. | I am speculating in foreign exchange for the fourth year. Regrettably, we all sometimes speculate in feelings. | I will never speculate. We will speculate with flowers. |
| 2 | Everyone knows that during the war you speculated with bread and soap. As I recall myself, you have always speculated on this. | You constantly speculate on Timothy’s weaknesses. Do not open, in the famine you were speculating in food products. | If you speculate on the good feelings of people, you will lose all your friends. Won't you speculate in stocks? |
| 3 | He (the merchant) even speculated with straw. They (the merchants) speculated on everything they could. Imagine, once she (my classmate) speculated on photographs of celebrities. | Speculation is when someone speculates on something or on something. Scientists speculate archaeological finds. These people speculate in securities. | He will speculate on the difference in price. She will never speculate. They will always speculate to earn what they need. |
Speculate: synonym
Synonyms make our speech more colorful, diverse and more interesting for the listener.
To speculate means:
- Trading (Nowadays, everyone who is not lazy is trading).
- Resell (In school years, Romashov bought powder for three pennies and resold it to girls and even young teachers for a ruble).
- Fartsevat (Until Zhigan did not find a permanent job, he rather successfully fartered on the market).
- Baryzhnichat (Uncle Nazar Mikhailovich baryzhnichal godlessly and drank everything he acquired).
Phrases with the verb "speculate"
How can you speculate?
By goods, currency, vegetables, conscience, pity, products, clothes, jeans, linen, dishes, seeds, fruits, grain, oil, gas, fossils, gold, books, textbooks, cosmetics, matches, soap, medicines, fish, caviar, dollars, euros, slaves, paintings, disks, bonds, stocks.
How can you speculate?
Insolently, successfully, secretly, impudent, unsuccessfully, secretly, openly, legally, illegally.