Слово "assume". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

But now and then a complex personality took the place and assumed the office of art; was indeed, in its way, a real work of art, Life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.

So it is with a heavy heart that I assume the throne.

At least, therefore, I did not assume the character of needless precipitance merely to show off before the ladies."

# It can be assumed

He leaned back, put his finger-tips together, and assumed his most impassive and judicial expression.

The mere smell of such festivity, making its way to everybody's nostrils, was at once an invitation and appetite. Maule's Lane, or Pyncheon Street, as it was now more decorous to call it, was thronged, at the appointed hour, as with a congregation on its way to church. All, as they approached, looked upward at the imposing edifice, which was henceforth to assume its rank among the habitations of mankind.

“Mr. Henry Baker, I believe,” said he, rising from his armchair and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he could so readily assume.

Next appeared a dark-complexioned, black-eyed, black-haired young lady, who paused an impressive moment, assumed a tragic expression, and began to read in a measured, solemn tone:

She paused, and then added, with a sort of assumed indifference, but still in a marked and significant tone—“But you are young, Miss; and I should say a light sleeper: perhaps you may have heard a noise?”

You need to enter every conversation assuming that you have something to learn.

You assume too much.

"Knowing you, I assume that it is female.

He had been assuming just the contrary.