posit vs sediment

posit and sediment both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
posit	Yes	No	Yes	No
sediment	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, sediment is a hyponym of posit; that is, sediment is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than posit:

Other hyponyms of posit include bury.

posit (noun)	sediment (noun)
(logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning	matter that has been deposited by some natural process

posit (verb)	sediment (verb)
take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom	settle as sediment
put before	deposit as a sediment
put (something somewhere) firmly