| acknowledge(admit, assert, own, confess) |
| act as if(expression, idiom, agree, allow, acknowledge) |
| admit(acknowledge, assert, own, confess) |
| affirm(maintain, oppose, declare, acknowledge, admit) |
| allege(verb, agree, allow, acknowledge, admit) |
| announce(verb, agree, allow, acknowledge, admit) |
| appoint(verb, order, politics, jurisprudence) |
| assert(maintain, oppose, declare, acknowledge, resist) |
| asseverate(maintain, oppose, declare, acknowledge, admit) |
| assign actions(verb, order, politics, jurisprudence) |
| assign authority to(verb, order, politics, jurisprudence) |
| attest(maintain, oppose, declare, object, resist) |
| aver(acknowledge, admit, assert, pretend, own) |
| avouch(maintain, oppose, declare, acknowledge, admit) |
| avow(maintain, oppose, declare, resist, admit) |
| back-talk(maintain, oppose, declare, object, resist) |
| be against(maintain, oppose, declare, object, resist) |
| be displeased by(maintain, oppose, declare, object, resist) |
| bind over(verb, order, politics, jurisprudence) |
| blast(maintain, oppose, declare, object, resist) |