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Definition/Meaning

(verb)

to take upon oneself; to undertake;

e.g. I assume all responsibility of your pet when they are in my care.

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Similar Words

Accept

Act

Affect

Bear

Bluff

Conjecture

Counterfeit

Daresay

Dissemble

Embezzle

Employ

Engage

Fake

Fee

Feign

Guess

Headhunt

Hire

Hypothecate

Hypothesize

Imagine

Make-believe

Pay

Philosophize

Place

Playact

Postulate

Premise

Presume

Presuppose

Pretend

Profess

Put-on

Reconstruct

Recreate

Recruit

Retain

Say

Sham

Shoulder

Simulate

Speculate

Subcontract

Suppose

Surmise

Suspect

Suspicion

Takeover

Theorize

Underlie

Undertake

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Opposite Words

Abandon

Abdicate

Abjure

Abnegate

Ascertain

Avoid

Ax

Backtrack

Belie

Bypass

Can

Cede

Challenge

Circumstantiate

Confute

Controvert

Demit

Demonstrate

Deny

Determine

Detour

Disavow

Disbelieve

Discharge

Disclaim

Discount

Discredit

Dismiss

Disown

Disprove

Dispute

Distrust

Document

Doubt

Establish

Fire

Forbear

Forsake

From

Furlough

Learn

Mistrust

Prove

Question

Rebut

Recant

Refute

Relinquish

Renounce

Resign

Retract

Sack

Substantiate

Surrender

Unsay

Validate

Waive

Withdraw

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Related Words

Accede

Acquiesce

Advance

Advocate

Affirm

Agree

Allege

Allow

Answer

Anticipate

Apprentice

Appropriate

Arrogate

Assay

Assent

Assert

Attempt

Aver

Avouch

Avow

Await

Back

Base

Believe

Borrow

Break

Buy

Buyer

Camouflage

Champion

Claim

Cloak

Commandeer

Conceal

Conceive

Conclude

Conjecture

Consent

Consider

Contend

Contract

Convert

Crack

Credit

Decide

Declare

Deduce

Deem

Derive

Disguise

Dissemble

Dissimulate

Dream

Endeavor

Endorse

Enlist

Essay

Esteem

Expect

Expropriate

Extrapolate

Extrapolation

Fancy

Feel

Feint

Figure

Forge

Gather

Ground

Guess

Hang

Headhunt

Hold

Hope

Hypothecate

Hypothesize

Imagine

Imitate

Impersonate

Infer

Insist

Into

Job

Judge

Maintain

Malinger

Mask

Masquerade

Partner

Perceive

Pirate

Play

Playact

Pose

Preconceive

Predicate

Preempt

Press

Pretend

Profess

Promote

Reaccept

Reason

Reassume

Reckon

Regard

Rehire

Resolve

Rest

Scent

Scout

See

Seek

Seize

Sense

Smell

Solve

Speculate

Strive

Subcontract

Support

Suppose

Surmise

Suspect

Suspicion

Swallow

Take

Takeover

Taste

Theorize

Think

Trust

Try

Understand

Unravel

Unriddle

Upgrade

Uphold

Usurp

Work

Workout

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Quotes

• "Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday it is closed today." -- Marian Wright Edelman

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