anticipate — If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
assume — If you assume that something is true, you imagine that it is true, sometimes wrongly.
envision — Imagine as a future possibility; visualize.
figure — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
foresee — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
foretell — to tell of beforehand; predict; prophesy.
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.
predict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.