anyone's guess
/ˈɛnɪwˌʌnz ɡˈɛs/
phrasevery uncertain or impossible to predict
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1. So even hypothetically, if a small rural hospital had the cash to purchase, let's say, five ventilators today, when those could be delivered is anyone's guess.
2. It's anyone's guess if he'll respond, but it's worth a try.
3. It's anyone's guess when the judge will respond to the NRA's request.
4. Whether they can pull it off is anyone's guess, but doggonit, they better.
5. Whether they can pull it off is anyone's guess.
to appraise
/əˈpɹeɪz/
verbto estimate or assess the value or quality of something
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1. My insurance appraised it at $89,000.
2. They can't be appropriately appraised entirely at once.
3. At auction, the valuable collection was appraised at upwards of $8 million.
4. Tate appraised the potential value as anywhere from $500,000 to $2.5 million.
5. For public art, try to appraise the values of the intended demographic.
appraisal
/əˈpɹeɪzəɫ/
nounthe act of evaluating someone or something in order to form an opinion or judgment about them
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1. Emotional appraisal is where you form of judgments about a particular situation.
2. That's one appraisal.
3. An appraisal of our works at Erlenhof should probably take place after our conversation.
4. Do you need appraisals?
5. Okay you had an appraisal.
(shot / stab) in the dark
/ʃˈɑːt stˈæb ɪnðə dˈɑːɹk/
phrasean attempt to guess or do something without having sufficient information or knowing the consequences
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1. I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess that most of you guys are overachievers, in this room, and very ambitious, and goals and results-oriented.
2. If you think that sounds like a shot in the dark, you’re right.
3. Admittedly, it was a stab in the dark.
4. This is a stab in the dark.
5. - I mean, it could be (stammers) such a shot in the dark!
to assess
/əˈsɛs/
verbto form a judgment on the quality, nature, or ability of something or someone
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1. Her tests and tasks for the protagonists assess their cleverness and worthiness as adults.
2. That study assessed the capabilities of automation technology.
3. Assess your situation.
4. Assess your adversary.
5. - Assess the situation.
assessment
/əˈsɛsmənt/
nounthe act of judging or evaluating someone or something carefully based on specific criteria
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1. Assessments were determined by the overall GDP, or economic strength of that particular country, and its population.
2. Three is assessment.
3. Assessment of casualties and damages taking place now.
4. The next word is assessment.
5. Assessment is a judgment of something.
bet
/ˈbɛt/
nounone's opinion or view about something
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1. People treat bet.
2. I bet 100 dollars with the original Phillies fan.
3. I bet 100 dollars on the Yankees.
4. Make Bets.
5. I bet the kids there like high top shoes.
to calculate
/ˈkæɫkjəˌɫeɪt/
verbto form an opinion by considering the information at hand
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1. These people are calculated risk takers.
2. The software has calculated the mark price.
3. Calculating route.
4. Also, calculate the width of the last row.
5. Now calculate your bust size.
calculation
/ˌkæɫkjəˈɫeɪʃən/
nounthe process of using one's information or judgment in order to guess the outcome of a situation
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1. So, string theorists did calculations in model universes.
2. Doing calculations.
3. So, here is the calculation.
4. The calculation takes into account the patient’s age, gender and race.
5. So here's the calculation.
cliffhanger
/ˈkɫɪfˌhæŋɝ/
nounan ending to an episode of a series that keeps the audience in suspense
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1. Dangnabit, I hate cliffhangers.
2. Every show is a cliffhanger.
3. It's a cliffhanger.
4. That's a cliffhanger.
5. - Season 2 ends on a huge cliffhanger.
cliffhanging
/klˈɪfhæŋɪŋ/
adjective(of a situation, movie, etc.) having an unclear ending that makes it enticing
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close but no cigar
/klˈoʊs bˌʌt nˈoʊ sɪɡˈɑːɹ/
phraseused to refer to an attempt or a guess that was close to achieve success but failed to do so
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1. Otherwise it would be close but no cigar Because science and I still want those pics as a spider-man
2. So he was close but no cigar on that one, right?
3. So he was close but no cigar on that one, right?
close to the mark
/klˈoʊs tə ðə mˈɑːɹk/
phrasealmost correct or accurate
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cold
/ˈkoʊɫd/
adjectiveused specifically in children’s games to say that someone is far away from guessing the correct answer or finding a hidden person or object
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1. The water in the lochs is cold and dark.
2. Some places get cold.
3. My hands are cold.
4. Your hands are cold?
5. I hate colds.
conjectural
/kəndʒˈɛktʃɚɹəl/
adjectivebeing primarily based on pure guess-work rather than definite knowledge
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1. Like all knowledge, it's conjectural, guesswork, tested by observation, not derived from it.
2. Rousseau speculates about this and, again, this is part of his hypothetical or conjectural history.
3. The Second Discourse, the discourse on inequality, presents itself as a hypothetical or conjectural history of human development from the state of nature to the civil condition.
4. It is what writers in the eighteenth century called a conjectural history.
5. These are just conjectural clusters.
conjecture
/kənˈdʒɛkʃɝ/, /kənˈdʒɛktʃɝ/
nounan idea that is based on guesswork and not facts
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1. That's conjecture on their side.
2. Most scholars conjecture that ancient Israelite-Judean religion, the practices of the people in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the first millennium BCE, was maybe monolatrist.
3. That, to be honest, is conjecture.
4. That's one conjecture at least.
5. We have our conjectures.
to conjecture
/kənˈdʒɛkʃɝ/, /kənˈdʒɛktʃɝ/
verbto form an idea or opinion about something on the basis of insufficient information or inconclusive evidence
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1. That's conjecture on their side.
2. Most scholars conjecture that ancient Israelite-Judean religion, the practices of the people in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the first millennium BCE, was maybe monolatrist.
3. That, to be honest, is conjecture.
4. That's one conjecture at least.
5. We have our conjectures.
critique
/kɹəˈtik/, /kɹɪˈtik/
nouna detailed judgment of something, such as a work of art, a political idea, etc.
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1. Theorists critique an inspiration.
2. Critique your own speech.
3. Critique your own speech.
4. They critique street fashion.
5. Critique the second draft.
to critique
/kɹəˈtik/, /kɹɪˈtik/
verbto evaluate or examine something in a critical and detailed way
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1. Theorists critique an inspiration.
2. Critique your own speech.
3. Critique your own speech.
4. They critique street fashion.
5. Critique the second draft.
to divine
/dɪˈvaɪn/
verbto figure out something by guessing or using one's intuition
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1. The sight of success is divine.
2. The pasta was divine.
3. The relationship of his human to divine nature.
4. Then every man, of every clime, That prays in his distress, Prays to the human form divine: Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.
5. The sets are divine.
don't tell me
/dˈoʊnt tˈɛl mˌiː/
sentenceused when one already knows something or can guess it beforehand
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1. I say, don't tell me who's the one.
2. So don't tell me you love your COUNTRY, are you doing things that ARE-- the last we can do is show that courtesy, that grace of wearing a MASK.
3. And don't tell me that oh, they need the Tooth Fairy, for CHILDHOOD.
4. He said, very FORCEFULLY, "don't tell me GOD did this to My Sister."
5. She told MY father later, "when you said, 'don't tell me GOD did this to My Sister,' it was like a bomb exploded on the INSIDE."
educated guess
/ˈɛdʒuːkˌeɪɾᵻd ɡˈɛs/
nouna guess that is made according to one's experience or knowledge thus is more likely to be true
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1. An educated guess from Badass Digest places the team as Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, Captain Marvel, and a handful of Inhumans under the leadership of Iron Man.
2. - What's your educated guess?
3. I only have guesses, some educated guesses.
4. It's my personal educated guess.
5. - It was like - Educated guess.
to estimate
/ˈɛstəˌmeɪt/, /ˈɛstəmət/
verbto guess the value, number, quantity, size, etc. of something without exact calculation
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1. Experts estimate about 500 000 in the earliest online years.
2. The first part is estimating the time for your usual tasks.
3. Next, estimate your retirement income.
4. Official Chinese government sources estimate $140 billion in direct losses and the death of a quarter of the world’s pigs.
5. People have made estimates.
estimate
/ˈɛstəˌmeɪt/, /ˈɛstəmət/
nouna judgment or calculation of the size, extent, value, etc. of something without knowing the exact details or numbers
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1. Experts estimate about 500 000 in the earliest online years.
2. The first part is estimating the time for your usual tasks.
3. Next, estimate your retirement income.
4. Official Chinese government sources estimate $140 billion in direct losses and the death of a quarter of the world’s pigs.
5. People have made estimates.
estimation
/ˌɛstəˈmeɪʃən/
nouna judgment of or an opinion about the value or qualities of something
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1. Do you have an estimation?
2. The etchings on a metallic phonographic record could last, according to estimations, for hundreds of millions of years with very little degradation.
3. This is my estimation.
4. So every 15 years, the government changes its estimation.
5. So, first, the first term is estimation.