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wild guess

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wild guess (plural wild guesses)

  1. A guess that is not based on any evidence, knowledge, or experience.
    Hypernym: guess
    Coordinate terms: educated guess, intelligent guess
    Near-synonyms: WAG, SWAG, uneducated guess, stab in the dark, shot in the dark; see also Thesaurus:supposition
    The student had no idea how to solve the math problem, so he took a wild guess among the choices given.
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