took a shot at (verb) guess: try to figure out; imagine
Sinonime: believe,
calculate,
chance,
conjecture, dare say,
deduce,
deem,
divine,
estimate,
fancy*,
fathom, go out on a limb, guesstimate, happen upon,
hazard*, hypothesize,
infer,
judge, jump to a conclusion, lump it,
opine,
penetrate,
pick,
postulate,
predicate,
predict,
presume,
pretend,
reason,
reckon,
select, size up,
solve,
speculate,
suggest,
suppose,
surmise,
survey,
suspect, take a shot at, take a stab at, theorize,
think, think likely,
venture,
work out*
Antonime: calculate,
measure