assume (v.)
- accept
- acquire
- act
- admit
- adopt
- affect
- affirm
- allegorize
- allow
- appropriate
- arrogate
- assert
- assume
- attack
- attempt
- aver
- believe
- bluff
- borrow
- bring
- camouflage
- change
- chorus
- cloak
- colonize
- commandeer
- comprise
- conceal
- concede
- conceive
- conclude
- connote
- conquer
- consider
- contain
- copy
- counterfeit
- crib
- dare
- deduce
- deem
- derive
- disguise
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- ditto
- divine
- do
- don
- dramatize
- draw
- dream
- echo
- employ
- encroach
- endeavor
- enslave
- entail
- esteem
- estimate
- expect
- fake
- fancy
- feel
- feign
- forge
- gain
- gather
- get
- grab
- grant
- guess
- have
- hazard
- hide
- hint
- hog
- hoke
- hold
- imagine
- imitate
- implicate
- imply
- import
- indent
- infer
- infringe
- insinuate
- intimate
- invade
- involve
- judge
- let
- maintain
- mask
- mean
- mirror
- mock
- monopolize
- obtain
- occupy
- opine
- overact
- overrun
- pirate
- plagiarize
- play
- playact
- posit
- postulate
- predicate
- preempt
- prefigure
- premise
- preoccupy
- prepossess
- presume
- presuppose
- pretend
- profess
- pull
- receive
- reckon
- reecho
- reflect
- regard
- repeat
- repute
- require
- requisition
- say
- secure
- seize
- sham
- simulate
- snatch
- steal
- strike
- subjugate
- subsume
- suggest
- suppose
- surmise
- suspect
- tackle
- take
- think
- throw
- trespass
- understand
- undertake
- use
- usurp
- venture
- wear
The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.
