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presume
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presume as in:  presumption of innocence

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I presumed she was an expert since she spoke so confidently.
presumed = assumed
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    The police's presumption of guilt against the suspect caused them to overlook important evidence.
    presumption = assumption
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    The presumption of innocence does no prevent holding a defendant thought to be a danger to society.
    presumption = the legal assumption that something is true unless proved otherwise
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    I presume they will perform an autopsy.  (source)
    presume = assume
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    At least we presume so.  (source)
    presume = believe
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    Besides, the shovels were locked up at night, presumably so they couldn't be used as weapons.  (source)
    presumably = probably
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ably" is a combination of the suffixes "-able" and "-ly". It means in a manner that is capable of being. This is the same pattern you see in words like agreeably, favorably, and comfortably.
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    I still presumed that the reason they weren't with me was because my father didn't have the money to pay for my treatment.  (source)
    presumed = assumed
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    In short Bilbo was "Presumed Dead," and not everybody that said so was sorry to find the presumption wrong.  (source)
    presumption = assumption
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    ...presuming that all our conjectures are correct --  (source)
    presuming = assuming
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    Inside the hotel itself, Hiro presumes furious activity is going on.†  (source)
    presumes = thinks of something as true or likely, even though it is not known with certainty
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    Presumptions of guilt, poverty, racial bias, and a host of other social, structural, and political dynamics have created a system that is defined by error, a system in which thousands of innocent people now suffer in prison.†  (source)
    Presumptions = things thought of as true or likely, even though they are not known with certainty
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    Presumable this is how it is.†  (source)
    Presumable = able to be assumed
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in presumable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable. Note that when "-able" is placed at the end of a word that ends in "E", the "E" is often dropped as in lovable and believable.
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    I presume he has a friend.  (source)
    presume = assume
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    Presumably he wanted it for the store.  (source)
    Presumably = probably
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presumptuous as in:  she is presumptuous

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    She does not like presumptuous employees.
    presumptuous = exercising unearned privileges
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    Goddess, I know I presume, but will you do me the honor of dining with me?  (source)
    presume = am bolder than is proper
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    "Do not presume to tell me what it means!" the mayor cried.  (source)
    presume = exercise privileges to which one is not entitled
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    Of course, I could not have expressed this view to Mr Farraday without embarking upon what might have seemed a presumptuous speech.  (source)
    presumptuous = exercising social privileges to which one is not entitled
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    And woe to Boythorn or other daring wight who shall presumptuously contest an inch with him!†  (source)
    presumptuously = in a manner that exercises privileges to which one is not entitled
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    The Ministry wouldn't presume to trouble you, sir, surely?  (source)
    presume = exercise privileges to which one is not entitled
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    You will, I am sure, excuse my presumption  (source)
    presumption = exercise of social privileges to which one might not entitled
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. When a word ends in "me", a "p" is often added as in assume to assumption, consume to consumption and resume to resumption.
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    No one on the island had ever presumed to stare like that at Sir Francis Tyler's granddaughter.  (source)
    presumed = acted so boldly as
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    It shows an overhaste-indeed, a presumptuousness, which we can but deplore.†  (source)
    presumptuousness = the state or degree of exercising privileges to which one is not entitled
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    It's paradoxical that an ordinary man like Nemur presumes to devote himself to making other people geniuses.  (source)
    presumes = exercises privileges to which one is not entitled
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    In this world the penalty is less equal than could be wished; but without presuming to look forward to a juster appointment hereafter, we may fairly consider a man of sense, like Henry Crawford, to be providing for himself no small portion of vexation and regret:  (source)
    presuming = exercising a privilege to which one is not entitled
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    A Crime which we know to be so, is greater than the same Crime proceeding from a false perswasion that it is lawfull: For he that committeth it against his own conscience, presumeth on his force, or other power, which encourages him to commit the same again: but he that doth it by errour, after the errour shewn him, is conformable to the Law.†  (source)
    presumeth = exercises privileges to which one is not entitled
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She presumeth" in older English, today we say "She presumes."
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    I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.  (source)
    presumptuous = inappropriately bold (exercising privileges to which he is not entitled)
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