predict, opine, extrapolate, foretell, obsess, speculate, ponder, postulate, dissect, outguess, overrate, ruminate, posit, psychoanalyze, analyze, bloviate, cogitate, fixate, expound, divining, contemplate, agonize, guess, theorizing, philosophize, stratify, summarize, overhype, ascribe, deduce, parse, digress, characterize, envision, dwell, anoint, kvetch, discern, generalize, evaluate, hyperbolize, define, assess, deify, contextualize, underwhelm, portend, compare, decide, dictate, bode, rhapsodise, coronate, foresee, strategize, delve, interpret, tease, foreshadow, intellectualize, blabber, fizzle, intuit, pussyfoot, preordain, yammer, pontificating, synopsize, fret, conventional wisdom, fathom, determine, musing, hypothesize, confound, gloomy gus, describe, theorise, explain, hypothesise, quantify, surmise, glom, naysay, bandy, calibrate, decipher, muddle through, elucidate, know, prattle, conjecturing, regress, scrutinize, conceptualize, predetermine, bewail, preoccupy, handicapping, mythologize, wondering, diverge

augur, bet, calculate, forecast, foreshow, prophesy, read, secondguess, threaten, wager

bespeak, betoken, hazard, indicate, point, signal, venture

anticipate, auspicate, call, forebode, omen, prefigure, presage, promise