avow (v.)

• accept
• acknowledge
• admit
• affirm
• allege
• allow
• announce
• annunciate
• argue
• assert
• asseverate
• attest
• aver
• avouch
• certify
• claim
• concede
• confess
• contend
• declare
• defend
• depone
• depose
• disclose
• enunciate
• express
• grant
• have
• hold
• insist
• maintain
• own
• predicate
• pretend
• proclaim
• profess
• pronounce
• protest
• purport
• put
• recognize
• say
• speak
• spill
• state
• submit
• swear
• testify
• vindicate
• vouch
• vow
• warrant
• witness
• yield