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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. . 2006