1. • verb - express a supposition
   • verb - expect, believe, or suppose
   • verb - to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
   • verb - take for granted or as a given
   • verb - require as a necessary antecedent or precondition
   • adj - required or under orders
   • adj - mistakenly believed
   • adj - doubtful or suspect
   • adj - based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
2. • Presumed to be true or real without conclusive evidence.
   • Intended: medication that is supposed to relieve pain.
   • Required: He is supposed to go to the store.
   • Permitted: We are not supposed to smoke here.
   • The central meaning shared by these adjectives is “put forth or accepted as being true on inconclusive grounds”: the supposed cause of inflation; conjectural criticism; the site of a hypothetical colony; a foundling’s putative father; the reputed author of the article; suppositious reconstructions of dead languages; supposititious hypotheses.
3. • v - to assume to be true

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