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accepted
Adjective
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Accepted ideas are agreed by most people to be correct or reasonable.
There is no generally accepted definition of life.
It is accepted wisdom that science has been partly responsible for the decline of religion.
hypothesis
Noun
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A hypothesis is a guess about what will happen, usually in scientific experiments.
We will test the hypothesis that the change will have no effect.
The results of the experiment support the hypothesis.
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A guess with no evidence to support it.
This idea is purely a hypothesis. It has not been proven