contend, say, insist, believe, surmise, posit, opine, presume, disagree, assert, suggest, theorize, complain, prove, think, claim, acknowledge, cite, liken, agree, infer, quibble, decry, criticize, concede, warn, bemoan, grumble, speculate, convinced, deride, accuse, worry, allege, gainsay, wonder, scoff, ascribe, postulate, laud, concur, deem, reckon, admit, cavil, pretend, justify, doubted, oppose, conclude, know, equate, analogize, deny, predict, disputing, reasoned, imagine, fathom, assume, countered, fret, naysay, debating, objected, suppose, emphasize, unconvinced, hypothesized, guessed, lament, questioned, attribute, explain, deduce, understand, misunderstand, consider, realize, tell, belive, mean, advocating, aver, attest, envision, cautioned, agued, groused, plead, feared, misperceive, proclaim, miscalculate, carped, impute, resent, hypothesise, specious argument, overestimate, dismiss, overstate

altercate, argufy, bicker, brabble, defend, dispute, expostulate, fend for, niggle, pettifog, quarrel, re-argue, spar, squabble, stickle, support

absurd, advocate, assertive, bicker, brabble, debate, defend, fend for, high-flown, inevitable, moot, moot court, niggle, pettifog, preach, pro-choice faction, pro-life faction, quibble, re-argue, relegate, remonstrate, shade, squabble, stickle, support

converse, differ, discourse, lay out, present, take issue

fence, indicate, reason