Difference between Reflect and Speculate

REFLECT vs SPECULATE: NOUN

To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble
To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture
To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to deliberate or cogitate
Reflect deeply on a subject
Talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion
To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
Invest at a risk

To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions.
To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize
To assume to be true without conclusive evidence.
To engage in the buying or selling of a commodity with an element of risk on the chance of profit.
To engage in a course of reasoning often based on inconclusive evidence; conjecture or theorize.

To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.
To bend back; to give a backwa�d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface

Synonyms To consider, meditate upon, etc. (see list under contemplate), cogitate, ruminate, study.
To shine.
To bring reproach; cast censure or blame: followed by on or upon.
To throw or turn back the thoughts upon something; think or consider seriously; revolve matters in the mind, especially in relation to conduct; ponder or meditate.
To throw back light, heat, sound, etc.; give reflections; return rays or beams; as, a reflecting mirror or gem.
To bend or turn back; be reflected.
To give back an image or likeness of; mirror.
To cause to return or to throw off after striking or falling on any surface, and in accordance with certain physical laws: as, to reflect light, heat, or sound; incident and reflected rays. See reflection, 2.
Hence, figuratively, to bend the will of; persuade.
To bend back; turn back; cast back; throw back again.

To view as from a watch-tower or observatory; observe.
To take a discriminating view of; consider attentively; speculate upon; examine; inspect: as, to speculate the nature of a thing.
To pursue truth by thinking, as by mathematical reasoning, by logical analysis, or by the review of data already collected.
To take a discursive view of a subject or subjects; note diverse aspects, relations, or probabilities; meditate; conjecture: often implying absence of definite method or result.
To invest money for profit upon an uncertainty; take the risk of loss in view of possible gain; make a purchase or purchases, as of something liable to sudden fluctuations in price or to rapid deterioration, on the chance of selling at a large advance: as, to speculate in stocks.

Represent, Conform, Reflective, Reflection, Think over, Mull over, Chew over, Muse, Mull, Meditate, Speculate, Shine, Ruminate, Ponder, Contemplate

Mull over, Hypothecate, Job, Meditate, Muse, Reflect, Suppose, Ruminate, Mull, Contemplate, Ponder, Theorise, Conjecture, Hypothesize, Theorize

Correspond, Illustrate, Represent, Conform, Reflective, Think over, Chew over, Muse, Mull, Meditate, Speculate, Shine, Ruminate, Ponder, Contemplate

Guess, Believe, Think over, Chew over, Job, Meditate, Muse, Reflect, Suppose, Ruminate, Mull, Contemplate, Ponder, Theorise, Conjecture

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