recommend (v.)

• acclaim
• advance
• advise
• advocate
• applaud
• approve
• back
• blandish
• boost
• brief
• broach
• cajole
• character
• coach
• coax
• commend
• compliment
• confer
• counsel
• direct
• endorse
• exhort
• favor
• guide
• hail
• hype
• importune
• insist
• instruct
• introduce
• jawbone
• kibitz
• launch
• lobby
• meddle
• moot
• move
• nag
• patronage
• persuade
• plug
• pose
• postulate
• praise
• prefer
• prescribe
• press
• pressure
• promote
• propose
• proposition
• propound
• puff
• push
• reference
• second
• soft-soap
• start
• submit
• suggest
• support
• sweet-talk
• tout
• underwrite
• urge
• wheedle