3. trade, exchange, buy and sell; venture, gamble, sport,
Inf. plunge, buy low and sell high, sell short, buy futures, Inf. play the market. speculation, n. 1. thinking, thought, reflection, meditation, contemplation; musing, pondering, brooding, mulling over, dwelling on; cogitating, cogitation, excogitating, excogitation; rumination, ruminating, chewing over, chewing one's cud; putting on one's thinking cap, cerebrating, cerebration, lucubration, brainwork, headwork; wondering, considering, weighing, evaluating, studying, examination.
2. inference, deduction, judgment, conclusion; conviction, persuasion, position; conjecture, surmise, guess, SI. shot in the dark; impression, Inf. hunch, assumption, supposition, presupposition, premise, presumption; hypothesis, thesis, postulate, postulation; theory, guesswork, augury, forecast, prediction; suspicion, inkling, feeling, intuition, divination.
3. venture, trading, exchanging, buying and selling; gambling, sporting, Inf playing the market. speculative, adj. 1. deliberative, cogitative, rational, reasoning, intellectual, ideational; abstract, ideal, notional, imaginary, philosophical; analytic, experimental.
2. theoretical, academic, hypothetical, supposititious, suppositional, conjectural; presumptive, assumptive, postulational, empirical, projected, trial-and-error; probative, tentative, provisional, controvertible, unproven, vague, indefinite, undemonstrated, unconfirmed; questionable, debatable, contestable; dubious, doubtful, improbable, unreliable; uncertain, undetermined, hard to believe, problematic. speech, n. 1. talking, speaking; communication, conversation, discussion, dialogue, colloquy, parley.
2. utterance, remark, comment; declaration, statement, avowal, assertion, asseveration, averment; observation, aside, mention, mutter.
3. talk, oration, after-dinner speech, address, declamation; sermon, allocution, homily, lecture, discourse; harangue, diatribe, tirade, philippic; sales pitch, spiel, pep talk. 4. language, dialect, tongue, patois, Inf lingo, argot, cant; vernacular, idiom, parlance; regionalism, colloquialism; gobbledegook.
5. elocution, diction, enunciation, accent, brogue, inflection, intonation. speechless, adj. 1. dumbstruck, dumbstricken, struck dumb, dumfounded, Inf. choked up, wordless; tongue-tied, inarticulate, unable to get a word out; shocked, amazed, astounded, Inf. floored, paralyzed; thunderstruck, confounded, dazed, nonplused.
2. voiceless, unvoiced, unspoken, unuttered, unexpressed, unsaid; tacit, implied, implicit; quiet, silent.
3. dumb, mute, unspeaking, voiceless, soundless, SI. m.o.s. speed, n. 1. rapidity, haste, hurry, hurriedness, celerity, velocity, speediness; alacrity, promptness, dispatch; swiftness, fleetness, quickness, fastness, expeditiousness, precipitousness.
-v. 2. further, forward, expedite, promote, advance; nudge ahead, get moving, get on the road, boost, give a boost to, give a leg up; back, assist, aid, support, pull strings for, facilitate.
3. rush, run, haste, scamper, Inf. scoot, scurry, hie, career; dash, dart, shoot, tear, sprint, race, charge; fly, go like the wind, outstrip the wind; whip along, spank, zoom, whoosh, whiz, SI. zing, SI. smoke, Inf zip, SI. make it snappy, Inf hightail it; hustle, cover ground, streak; bolt, Inf. skedaddle, run like a scared rabbit, SI. vamoose, decamp, SI. make tracks; gallop, trot, SI. put the heat on; Inf. go hellbent for leather or election, go at breakneck speed, go like a bat out of hell, go like a shot, go like lightning or greased lightning; Inf. tear up the road, SI. barrel, Inf. floor it, Inf gun it.