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| assumption |
something that is supposed or believed without questioning. For example, if you ask someone whether she is allowed to watch TV during dinner, you have made an assumption that there is a TV in her house. Assumptions are ideas people have that are not based on proven facts. An assumption can be correct or incorrect. [1/2 definitions] |
| bar mitzvah |
a Jewish ceremony that celebrates a boy's adulthood and the assumption of his religious duties, usu. occurring at the age of thirteen. (Cf. bat mitzvah.) [1/2 definitions] |
| lead on |
to entice into making a false assumption or taking an inappropriate or unwise course of action. |
| principle |
a law, doctrine, or assumption on which action or behavior is based. [1/4 definitions] |
| put one's foot in one's mouth |
to say something regrettable, sometimes revealing one's own or another's secret by accident or revealing an opinion or assumption that should not have been stated openly. |
| say |
to suppose or take as an assumption. [1/16 definitions] |
| supposition |
something that is supposed; assumption; hypothesis. [1/2 definitions] |
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