surmise, believe, infer, assume, suppose, pretend, insist, suggest, say, guess, argue, know, think, deduce, posit, opine, deem, postulate, ascribe, preordain, imply, conclude, speculate, reckon, ipso facto, cavil, impute, admit, presuppose, agree, hypothesise, concur, preconceived idea, mean, misunderstand, construe, naysay, disagree, convinced, disclaim, belive, expect, daresay, insinuate, acknowledge, tell, perjure, gainsay, adjudges, assure, seem, concede, hypothesize, ought, rephrase, arrogate, wonder, generalize, demur, analogize, advise, per se, misinterpret, imagine, swear, doubt, regard, digress, hazarding, sentimentalise, ask, overemphasise, overgeneralize, ignore, conjecture, understand, adduce, faute de mieux, prejudge, equate, mishear, extrapolate, disentitle, inculpate, ex cathedra, ipse dixit, stipulate, dumbfounds, particularize, predict, lieve, cui bono, quibble, predecease, expatiate, methinks, bastardise, pussyfoot, theorize, prove, aver, intuited, speak, get, rejoice, be, cease, correspond, dare, elect, express, keeps, profess, put, puts, reside, serve, suffice

anticipate

take for granted