admit, capitulate, acknowledge, accept, budge, insist, argue, relent, say, deny, cede, squander, criticize, accede, assert, contend, relinquish, presume, pounce, rue, shirk, believe, ascribe, declare, dishearten, but, prove, agree, underestimate, surmise, downhearted, divulge, disavow, lose, spurn, gainsay, quibble, reckon, belabour, enamour, backtrack, ignore, succumb, countenance, concur, dwell, surrender, overlook, flinch, gloat, complain, bemoan, speculate, waver, begrudge, countered, convinced, retorted, abandon, acquiesce, reject, contemplate, confess, dismiss, opine, think, cavil, outplay, demur, defend, falter, emphasize, suppose, prevail, know, recognize, overpraise, conclude, loth, defy, snatch, disagree, grumble, assume, avow, baulk, sentimentalise, oblige, overawed, trounce, espouse, laud, overemphasise, cite, overrule, signaled, overconfident, bellyached, fritter away, doubted, endorse, impose

forgive

allow, grant, take into account, write off, yield

give, give up

profess