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Assert

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

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Broader term 12

Acquit 76% connected

Acquitted; set free; rid of.

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Bear 76% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Behave 76% connected

To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

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Carry 76% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Comport 76% connected

To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.

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Conduct 76% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Declare 76% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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Deport 76% connected

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.

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Insist 76% connected

To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.

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Posit 76% connected

To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

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Postulate 76% connected

Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

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Manner of action 13

Allege 76% connected

To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.

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Assure 76% connected

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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Attest 76% connected

To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record.

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Aver 76% connected

A work horse, or working ox.

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Claim 76% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Declare 76% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Predicate 76% connected

To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.

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Proclaim 76% connected

To make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace.

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Protest 76% connected

To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Derivationally related 6

Assertion 74% connected

The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.

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Assertion 74% connected

The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.

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Assertive 74% connected

Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.

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Assertive 74% connected

Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.

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Asseveration 74% connected

The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration.

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Asseveration 74% connected

The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration.

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Synonym 9

Affirm 92% connected

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.

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Asseverate 92% connected

To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Aver 92% connected

A work horse, or working ox.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Avow 92% connected

To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Insist 92% connected

To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Maintain 92% connected

To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintai…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swan 92% connected

Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and stro…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swear 92% connected

To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Verify 92% connected

To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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