claiming, stating, declaring, denying, arguing, reasserting, insisting, contends, refuting, saying, reiterating, proclaiming, acknowledging, implying, contradicting, disputing, justifying, emphasizing, averring, suggesting, insinuating, believing, repudiated, stressing, assuring, impugning, inferring, alleging, opining, concluding, disavowing, defending, invoking, propounding, rebutting, ascribing, arrogating, dismissing, reaffirming, rejecting, affirming, denouncing, characterizing, disclaiming, trumpeting, criticizing, confirming, assailing, construes, repeating, circumscribing, positing, castigating, condemning, disassociating, presuming, espousing, misconstrues, countering, misrepresenting, vindicating, aggrandize, undermining, overreaching, conflating, intimating, adducing, ridiculing, constitutionalize, prove, exerting, reminding, parroting, granting, portraying, usurping, deriding, rebuking, touting, advocating, exculpated, admitting, promulgating, telling, denigrating, noting, assuming, indicating, legitimating, expounding, pronouncing, demonizing, elaborating, exonerating, challenged, estop, legitimizing, imputing, extolling, decreeing, decrying, belittling

., affirmation, assertion, avouchment, avowal, declaration of independence, denial, humanist, humanistic, pre-emption, preemption, self-assertion, statement, truculently, zen, zen buddhism

declarative, declaratory