em-, emp-, empt- (sump-, -sum-)

The process of wasting away, gradual destruction. (Considered obsolete).

1. To think that something is true even though there is no evidence for it.
2. To start being responsible for something.
3. To adopt or to take on something.
4. To take on a particular role or function.
5. To put on a pretense of something, usually in order to hide one's true feelings.
6. To take to oneself formally (the insignia of office or symbol of a vocation); to undertake (an office or duty).
7. To take for granted as the basis of argument or action; to suppose that a thing is.

To assume means "to suppose, to put forward" as with a hypothesis or a possibility: "Let's assume I don't get a pay raise; could we still afford to buy a new car?"

1. Taken for granted.
2. Not genuine or true.

Expecting too much of other people.

1. Taking upon oneself, an undertaking; especially in law.
2. A promise or contract, oral or in writing not sealed, founded upon a consideration.
3. An action to recover damages for breach or non-performance of such a contract.

1. Something that is believed to be true without proof.
2. The action of taking to oneself; reception, adoption.
3. The action of receiving up into heaven; ascent to or reception into heaven; the reception of the Virgin Mary into heaven, with body preserved from corruption, which is a generally accepted doctrine in the Roman Catholic Church. Also the feast held annually on the 15th of August in honor of this event.
4. The action of taking for or upon oneself.
5. The taking upon oneself of a form or character; the formal taking of an office or a position.
6. In law, a promise or undertaking, either oral or in writing not sealed.
7. The action of laying claim to as a possession, unwarrantable claim, usurpation.
8. A taking too much upon oneself, a laying claim to undue importance; arrogance.
9. The taking of anything for granted as the basis of argument or action. 10. That which is assumed or taken for granted; a supposition, postulate. 11. In logic, the minor premise of a syllogism.

1. Someone who bases his/her arguments on an assumption.
2. In the Roman Catholic Church, A member of the congregation entitled Augustinians of the Assumption, "which had its origin in the College of the Assumption, established at Nimes, in France, in 1843."

Given to assumption, assuming; hence, assumptiousness, tendency to take too much upon oneself.

1. Characterized by being assumed or taken to oneself.
2. Of the nature of an assumption; taken for granted.
3. Apt to take to oneself, appropriative.
4. Apt to take things for granted.
5. Making undue claims, assumptious, arrogant

In an assumptive manner, by way of assumption.

1. To eat or drink something, especially in large amounts.
2. To use something in such a way that it cannot be reused or recovered afterwards.
3. To destroy something or someone completely, especially by fire or disease.
4. To buy goods or services produced by other people.

1. Someone who buys goods or services.
2. Someone or something that consumes something, by eating it, drinking it, or using it up.
3. In an ecological community or food chain, an organism that feeds on other organisms, or on materials derived from them. Consumers include herbivorous and carnivorous animals, that feed on plants and other animals respectively; and also organisms such as worms, fungi, and bacteria, which feed on nonliving organic material.