The last deceased person will assume the duty of calling for the dead.
There are different factors in which a person can assume closeness: family, friends, people with similar characteristics, etc.
Why else would the person assume she might be armed and wouldn't hesitate to shoot?
An achieved role is a position that a person assumes voluntarily which reflects personal skills, abilities, and effort.
He smiled wryly, thinking how more than one person had assumed he'd wanted that particular bed for another reason entirely.
No person may assume a position in two of the branches at once.
A professional person, he assumed, in an expensive green silk dress, carrying her briefcase.
Such a person would assume that this condition was normal and that others were just like them.
A cautious person would assume kids could have overheard something.
The challenge of unspoken assumptions is knowing what the other person actually assumes.