assert (v.)

• advance
• advocate
• affirm
• allege
• announce
• annunciate
• answer
• argue
• asseverate
• aver
• avouch
• avow
• champion
• confess
• contend
• counter
• declare
• defend
• enunciate
• espouse
• express
• have
• hold
• insist
• maintain
• persist
• pose
• posit
• postulate
• predicate
• press
• proclaim
• profess
• pronounce
• propose
• propound
• protest
• put
• quote
• rebut
• recite
• refute
• relate
• reply
• respond
• riposte
• say
• speak
• state
• submit
• support
• sustain
• swear
• uphold
• urge
• vow
• warrant