assumption

  • 131assumption — n. 1. Assuming, taking, taking on, taking up, accepting, becoming responsible for. 2. Assuming, arrogating, usurpation. 3. Presumption, supposition, conjecture, hypothesis, postulate, theory. 4. Haughtiness, loftiness, superciliousness,… …

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  • 132assumption — n 1. supposition, presupposition, premise, presumption; guess, guesswork, conjecture; surmise, inference, deduction, understanding; thesis, hypothesis, theory, postulate, postulation, axiom. 2. taking on or over, assuming, undertaking, adopting,… …

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