To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.
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to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
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To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.direct attention to, as if by means of contrast; "This dress accentuates your nice figure!"; "I set off these words by brackets"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or jud…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auctio…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.the most interesting or memorable part; "the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.the most interesting or memorable part; "the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effec…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.To infold or involve; to wrap up.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Reporting verbs.To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to de…
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Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: believe, uncertain, tentative, grounds, scientists.of Age
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: believe, uncertain, tentative, grounds, scientists.One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hind…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: believe, uncertain, tentative, grounds, scientists.A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: believe, uncertain, tentative, grounds, scientists.An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: believe, uncertain, tentative, grounds, scientists.To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: believe, uncertain, tentative, grounds, scientists.One who, or that which, feels.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: believe, uncertain, tentative, grounds, scientists.An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon. It is found in the Cretaceous formation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: believe, uncertain, tentative, grounds, scientists.To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: believe, uncertain, tentative, grounds, scientists.A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: believe, uncertain, tentative, grounds, scientists.The quality or state of being ideal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: believe, uncertain, tentative, grounds, scientists.A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: believe, uncertain, tentative, grounds, scientists.Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: believe, uncertain, tentative, grounds, scientists.
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