saying, stressing, claiming, arguing, suggesting, asserting, admitting, vowed, declaring, stating, assuring, denying, convinced, believing, acknowledging, refusing, hinting, reiterating, agreeing, telling, pledging, confirming, contended, insinuating, intimating, implying, reassured, rejecting, demanded, urging, pretending, promised, preferring, criticizing, presuming, prevaricated, disputing, emphasizing, blaming, ensuring, proclaiming, refuting, fearing, deeming, retorted, stipulating, reminding, demurring, carping, contradicting, warned, harping, condemning, professing, signaled, deriding, loth, pleading, pressuring, unconvinced, brazening, denouncing, ignoring, persuading, proving, dismissing, ridiculing, fumed, defended, calling, complaining, revealing, budging, sulking, clarified, terming, concedes, accusing, guaranteeing, maintained, obliging, letting, praising, speculating, rebuffing, scorning, but, cavilling, decreeing, reckons, blabbing, resiling, castigating, underlining, disowning, blathered, foisting, cautioning, apologizing, advocating, implored, mentioning

abandon, give up

demand

insistence