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Postulate

Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.

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Verb group 6

Claim 84% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Claim 84% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Exact 84% connected

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Exact 84% connected

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Manner of action 16

Assert 76% connected

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

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Behoove 76% connected

To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.

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Behove 76% connected

and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.

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Claim 76% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Compel 76% connected

To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

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Cost 76% connected

A rib; a side; a region or coast.

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Depend 76% connected

To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

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Deserve 76% connected

To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of…

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Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Exact 76% connected

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Govern 76% connected

To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.

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Insist 76% connected

To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.

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Merit 76% connected

The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.

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Occupy 76% connected

To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

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Ride 76% connected

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Narrower term 3

Assumption 76% connected

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.

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Premise 76% connected

A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

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Premiss 76% connected

Premise.

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Broader term 9

Claim 76% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Concern 76% connected

To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

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Pertain 76% connected

To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocea…

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Presuppose 76% connected

To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Proposition 76% connected

The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.

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Refer 76% connected

To carry or send back.

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Relate 76% connected

To bring back; to restore.

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Suppose 76% connected

To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the real…

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Derivationally related 6

Need 74% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Need 74% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Position 74% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Position 74% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Requirement 74% connected

The act of requiring; demand; requisition.

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Requirement 74% connected

The act of requiring; demand; requisition.

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Synonym 9

Ask 92% connected

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Contend 92% connected

To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Demand 92% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Involve 92% connected

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Necessitate 92% connected

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Need 92% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Posit 92% connected

To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Require 92% connected

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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