All assume synonyms

verb assume

• believe — If you believe that something is true, you think that it is true, but you are not sure.
• guess — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
• consider — If you consider a person or thing to be something, you have the opinion that this is what they are.
• conclude — If you conclude that something is true, you decide that it is true using the facts you know as a basis.
• accept — If you accept something that you have been offered, you say yes to it or agree to take it.
• infer — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
• understand — to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
• presume — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
• suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
• speculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
• think — to seem or appear (usually used impersonally with a dative as the subject).
• begin — To begin to do something means to start doing it.
• acquire — If you acquire something, you buy or obtain it for yourself, or someone gives it to you.
• take up — the act of taking.
• take over — the act of taking.
• affect — If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
• adopt — If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
• conjecture — A conjecture is a conclusion that is based on information that is not certain or complete.
• gather — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
• theorize — to form a theory or theories.
• divine — of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.
• hypothesize — to form a hypothesis.
• predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
• fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
• judge — Alan L(aVern) born 1932, U.S. astronaut.
• deduce — If you deduce something or deduce that something is true, you reach that conclusion because of other things that you know to be true.
• deem — If something is deemed to have a particular quality or to do a particular thing, it is considered to have that quality or do that thing.
• suppose — to assume (something), as for the sake of argument or as part of a proposition or theory: Suppose the distance to be one mile.
• imagine — to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
• posit — to place, put, or set.
• postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
• ascertain — If you ascertain the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so.
• presuppose — to suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance.
• find — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
• surmise — to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
• arrogate — If someone arrogates to themselves something such as a responsibility or privilege, they claim or take it even though they have no right to do so.
• appropriate — Something that is appropriate is suitable or acceptable for a particular situation.
• don — Donald Eugene ("Don") 1936–95, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
• confiscate — If you confiscate something from someone, you take it away from them, usually as a punishment.
• seize — to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grasp: to seize a weapon.
• fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
• feign — to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
• simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
• imitate — to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.
• pretend — to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
• mimic — to imitate or copy in action, speech, etc., often playfully or derisively.
• impersonate — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
• bluff — A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
• act — When you act, you do something for a particular purpose.
• counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.