hypothecate
81pawn — I v 1.Informal. hock, put in pawn, Rare. impawn; deposit, put up or give as security, impigno rate, pledge, plight, commit, obligate, bind, mortgage, hypothecate; stake, lay, wager, bet, Poker. ante, Archaic. gage, gamble, speculate; risk,… …
82postulate — v 1. assume, suppose, presuppose, presume, take for granted; posit, predicate, theorize, hypothesize, hypothecate, speculate; infer, gather, conjecture; guess, surmise, judge, deem, conclude, deduce. 2. ask, solicit, beg, plead, supplicate,… …
83premise — n 1. postulate, postulation, axiom; proposition, proposal, hypothesis, thesis, lemma, theorem; presupposition, assumption, Rhet. prolepsis; inference, surmise, conjecture; basis, foundation, ground, starting point. 2. premises building,… …
84presume — v 1. assume, suppose, take for granted, presuppose, postulate, posit, predicate, theorize, hypothesize, hypothecate, speculate; suspect, imagine, surmise, conjecture, guess, hazard a guess; believe, fancy, think, think likely, daresay, opine,… …
85presuppose — v suppose, assume, presume, take for granted, premise; postulate, posit, predicate, theorize, hypothesize, hypothecate, speculate; suspect, Nonstandard. suspicion, be inclined to think, imagine, expect, surmise, guess; think, deem, opine, Chiefly …
86secure — adj 1. safe, protected, sheltered, defended, fortified; unexposed, immune, unthreatened, unmolested, unimperiled, unhazarded; unperilous, free from danger, not dangerous, vaccinated, inoculated, free; invulnerable, unattackable, unassailable,… …
87speculate — v 1. meditate, think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, rationalize, intellectualize; deliberate, put on one s thinking cap, contemplate, ponder; study, muse, mull over, ruminate; digest, think over, ponder over, brood over; reflect over, reflect on …
88suppose — v 1. assume, take for granted, presume, presuppose, postulate, posit, predicate, theorize, hypothesize, hypothecate, speculate; suspect, imagine, surmise, conjecture, guess, reckon, hazard a guess; believe, fancy, think, think likely, daresay,… …
89pledge — A bailment, pawn, or deposit of personal property to a creditor as security for some debt or engagement. Personal property transferred to pledgee as security for pledger s payment of debt or other obligation. Jacobs v. Great Pacific Century Corp …
90surmisal — noun a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence • Syn: ↑guess, ↑conjecture, ↑supposition, ↑surmise, ↑speculation, ↑hypothesis • Derivationally related forms: ↑hypothetical …
