mere surmise
101guess — /gɛs / (say ges) verb (t) 1. to form an opinion of at random or from evidence admittedly uncertain: to guess the age of a woman. 2. to estimate or conjecture correctly: to guess a riddle. 3. to think, believe, or suppose: I guess I can get there… …
102a shot in the dark — (WILD) GUESS, surmise, supposition, conjecture, speculation. → shot * * * a shot in the dark A random guess or wild speculation • • • Main Entry: ↑shot * * * I a shot (or stab) in the dark an act whose outcome cannot be foreseen; a mere guess II… …
103DANIEL, BOOK OF — DANIEL, BOOK OF, a book of the third division of the Hebrew Bible, the Hagiographa, named for a man Daniel whose fortunes and predictions are the subject of the book. DIVISIONS AND CONTENTS When the Book of Daniel is examined for content and… …
104HERZL, THEODOR — (Binyamin Ze ev; 1860–1904), founder of political Zionism and the World Zionist Organization. Herzl was born in Budapest, Hungary, to an affluent family and educated in the spirit of German Jewish enlightenment. In 1878 he entered the law faculty …
105SEVARAH — SEVARAH, the legal logic employed by halakhic scholars in their reasoning. This logic is founded on observation of the characteristics of human beings as they are disclosed in their social relations with one another and on a study of the… …
