profess
I
(avow) verb
acknowledge, admit, advocate, affirm, announce, assert, asseverate, assure, attest, aver, avouch, contend, declare, disclose, divulge, hold out, lay bare, lay open, maintain, make a statement, make an assertion, make clear, make evident, make known, own, pledge, proclaim, pronounce, put forth, put forward, reveal, set forth, state, subscribe to, tell, utter
II
(pretend) verb
affect, claim, concoct, counterfeit, create a false impression, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, fabricate, feign, give a false impression, imagine, make a show of, make believe, pass for, posture, practice chicanery, put a false construction upon, represent fictitiously, sham, simulate
III
index
affirm (claim), allege, annunciate, assert, assume (simulate), assure (insure), avouch (avow), avow, bear (adduce), claim (maintain), concede, contend (maintain), declare, depose (testify), enunciate, palter, posit, pretend, purport, testify
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006