verb
- Take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof.
- usage: "I assume his train was late"
- synonyms: assume, presume, take for granted
adjective
- Evident without proof or argument.
- usage: "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident"
- synonyms: axiomatic, self-evident
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