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to take to or upon oneself<Josh promised to assume responsibility for any damage to the flower beds caused by the volleyball game in the backyard>Synonymsaccept, bear, shoulder, take over, undertakeRelated Wordsadopt, embrace; back, endorse (also indorse), espouse, stand by, support, uphold; accede, acquiesce, agree, assent, consentNear Antonymsabjure, recant, renounce, retract, take back; decline, refuse, reject, spurn, turn down; abstain, forbear, refrain; avoid, bypass, detourAntonymsdisavow, disclaim, disown, repudiate
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to take as true or as a fact without actual proof<everyone assumed, wrongly, that someone else was bringing dessert>Synonymspostulate, premise, presume, presuppose, supposeRelated Wordsaccept, believe, credit, swallow; conclude, deduce, gather, judge, infer, take; conjecture, figure, guess, reckon [chiefly dialect], surmise, suspect, think; conceive, dream, fancy, imagine, perceive, preconceive; hypothesize, speculate, theorize; affirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, avow, claim, contend, declare, insist, maintain, professPhrasestake for grantedNear Antonymschallenge, disbelieve, discount, discredit, dispute, distrust, doubt, mistrust, question, suspect, wonder (about); deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, reject, repudiate; confute, disprove, rebut, refute
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to form an opinion from little or no evidence<as I just assumed it was too late to go out, I didn't think to ask>— see guess 1
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to present a false appearance of<she assumed an air of nonchalance even though she was wildly ecstatic she could go>— see feign
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