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speak up for
collapse
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advocate
,
allege in support
,
answer
,
argue for
,
assert
,
champion
,
contend for
,
counter
,
defend
,
espouse
,
maintain
,
make a plea
,
plead for
,
rebut
,
refute
,
reply
,
respond
,
riposte
,
say in defense
,
speak for
,
stand up for
,
stick up for
,
support
,
sustain
,
uphold
,
urge reasons for
contend for
collapse
related words >
advocate
,
allege in support
,
answer
,
argue for
,
assert
,
bid for
,
champion
,
counter
,
defend
,
espouse
,
fight for
,
maintain
,
make a plea
,
plead for
,
pull for
,
rebut
,
refute
,
reply
,
respond
,
riposte
,
say in defense
,
speak for
,
speak up for
,
stand up for
,
stick up for
,
stickle for
,
stipulate for
,
strain for
,
strive for
,
struggle for
,
support
,
sustain
,
try for
,
uphold
,
urge reasons for
,
vie for
speak for
collapse
be a spokesperson for; "He represents the Government's position"
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act for
,
advocate
,
allege in support
,
answer
,
answer for
,
appear for
,
argue for
,
assert
,
back up
,
champion
,
commission
,
contend for
,
counter
,
defend
,
deputize
,
espouse
,
front for
,
maintain
,
make a plea
,
pinch-hit for
,
plead for
,
rebut
,
refute
,
reply
,
represent
,
respond
,
riposte
,
say in defense
,
speak up for
,
stand in for
,
stand up for
,
stick up for
,
substitute for
,
support
,
sustain
,
understudy
,
uphold
,
urge reasons for
stick up for
collapse
related words >
advocate
,
allege in support
,
answer
,
argue for
,
assert
,
back
,
back up
,
champion
,
contend for
,
counter
,
defend
,
espouse
,
get behind
,
get in behind
,
maintain
,
make a plea
,
plead for
,
rebut
,
refute
,
reply
,
respond
,
riposte
,
run interference for
,
say in defense
,
second
,
side with
,
speak for
,
speak up for
,
stand back of
,
stand behind
,
stand by
,
stand up for
,
stick by
,
support
,
sustain
,
take sides with
,
uphold
,
urge reasons for
stand up for
collapse
related words >
advocate
,
allege in support
,
answer
,
argue for
,
assert
,
assure
,
attest
,
back
,
be sponsor for
,
bond
,
certify
,
champion
,
confirm
,
contend for
,
counter
,
countersecure
,
defend
,
endorse
,
ensure
,
espouse
,
guarantee
,
guaranty
,
insure
,
maintain
,
make a plea
,
plead for
,
rebut
,
refute
,
reply
,
respond
,
riposte
,
say in defense
,
secure
,
sign
,
sign for
,
speak for
,
speak up for
,
sponsor
,
stand behind
,
stick up for
,
subscribe to
,
support
,
sustain
,
undersign
,
underwrite
,
uphold
,
urge reasons for
,
warrant
espouse
collapse
take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"
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accept
,
adopt
,
advocate
,
affiliate
,
allege in support
,
answer
,
approve
,
argue for
,
assert
,
back
,
be made one
,
be spliced
,
become one
,
campaign for
,
carry
,
catch
,
champion
,
contend for
,
contract matrimony
,
counter
,
couple
,
crusade for
,
defend
,
embrace
,
get hitched
,
go in for
,
intermarry
,
interwed
,
maintain
,
make a plea
,
marry
,
mate
,
miscegenate
,
pair off
,
pass
,
plead for
,
ratify
,
rebut
,
refute
,
remarry
,
reply
,
respond
,
rewed
,
riposte
,
say in defense
,
speak for
,
speak up for
,
stand up for
,
stick up for
,
support
,
sustain
,
take on
,
take to wife
,
take up
,
uphold
,
urge reasons for
,
wed
,
wive
sake
collapse
a reason for wanting something done; "for your sake"; "died for the sake of his country"; "in the interest of safety"; "in the common interest"
the purpose of achieving or obtaining; "for the sake of argument"
Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot
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account
,
advantage
,
aim
,
ambition
,
animus
,
aspiration
,
basis
,
behalf
,
benefit
,
calling
,
cause
,
consideration
,
counsel
,
desideration
,
desideratum
,
design
,
desire
,
determination
,
effect
,
fixed purpose
,
function
,
gain
,
goal
,
good
,
ground
,
guiding light
,
guiding star
,
idea
,
ideal
,
inspiration
,
intendment
,
intent
,
intention
,
lodestar
,
mainspring
,
matter
,
meaning
,
mind
,
motive
,
nisus
,
objectives
,
plan
,
point
,
principle
,
profit
,
project
,
proposal
,
prospectus
,
purpose
,
purposes
,
reason
,
reasons
,
resolution
,
resolve
,
score
,
source
,
spring
,
striving
,
study
,
ulterior motive
,
view
,
vocation
,
welfare
,
well-being
,
will
assert
collapse
state categorically
insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized; "Women should assert themselves more!"
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advance
,
advocate
,
affirm
,
allege
,
allege in support
,
announce
,
annunciate
,
answer
,
argue
,
argue for
,
assever
,
asseverate
,
aver
,
avouch
,
avow
,
brook no denial
,
champion
,
confess
,
contend
,
contend for
,
counter
,
declare
,
defend
,
enunciate
,
espouse
,
express
,
express the belief
,
have
,
hold
,
insist
,
insist on
,
insist upon
,
issue a manifesto
,
lay down
,
maintain
,
make a plea
,
manifesto
,
nuncupate
,
persist
,
plead for
,
pose
,
posit
,
postulate
,
predicate
,
press
,
proclaim
,
profess
,
pronounce
,
propose
,
propound
,
protest
,
put
,
put it
,
quote
,
rebut
,
recite
,
refute
,
relate
,
reply
,
respond
,
riposte
,
say
,
say in defense
,
set down
,
set forth
,
speak
,
speak for
,
speak out
,
speak up
,
speak up for
,
stand for
,
stand on
,
stand up for
,
state
,
stick to
,
stick up for
,
submit
,
support
,
sustain
,
swear
,
take no denial
,
uphold
,
urge
,
urge reasons for
,
vow
,
warrant
reasoning
collapse
thinking that is coherent and logical
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Vernunft
,
abstract thought
,
act of thought
,
analysis
,
analytic
,
arguments
,
brain
,
brains
,
brainwork
,
cerebral
,
cerebration
,
cogitation
,
conceit
,
conception
,
conceptive
,
conceptual
,
conceptualization
,
creative thought
,
discourse of reason
,
discursive reason
,
endopsychic
,
esprit
,
excogitation
,
explanation
,
explication
,
gray matter
,
head
,
headpiece
,
headwork
,
heavy thinking
,
hypothesis
,
idea
,
ideation
,
imageless thought
,
intellect
,
intellection
,
intellectual
,
intellectual exercise
,
intellectual faculty
,
intellectualization
,
intelligence
,
intelligent
,
internal
,
logic
,
mens
,
mental
,
mental act
,
mental capacity
,
mental labor
,
mental process
,
mentality
,
mentation
,
mind
,
noesis
,
noetic
,
noological
,
nous
,
phrenic
,
postulate
,
power of reason
,
premises
,
psyche
,
psychic
,
psychologic
,
ratio
,
ratiocination
,
ratiocinative
,
ratiocinatory
,
rational
,
rationale
,
rationality
,
rationalization
,
reason
,
reasoning faculty
,
reasons
,
smarts
,
spiritual
,
straight thinking
,
subjective
,
theory
,
thinking
,
thinking aloud
,
thinking out
,
thought
,
understanding
defend
collapse
argue or speak in defense of; "She supported the motion to strike"
be on the defensive; act against an attack
protect against a challenge or attack; "Hold that position behind the trees!"; "Hold the bridge against the enemy's attacks"
be the defense counsel for someone in a trial; "Ms. Smith will represent the defendant"
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account
,
advocate
,
air
,
allege in support
,
answer
,
argue
,
argue for
,
arm
,
armor
,
assert
,
avert
,
back
,
battle
,
bless
,
bulwark
,
champion
,
claim
,
cloak
,
compass about
,
conserve
,
contend
,
contend for
,
copyright
,
counter
,
cover
,
cushion
,
ensure
,
espouse
,
explain
,
express
,
fence
,
fend
,
fend off
,
fight
,
fight for
,
flank
,
fortify
,
guarantee
,
guard
,
guard against
,
harbor
,
haven
,
insure
,
justify
,
keep
,
keep from harm
,
keep safe
,
maintain
,
make a plea
,
make safe
,
nestle
,
oppose
,
parry
,
patent
,
plead for
,
police
,
preserve
,
prevent
,
protect
,
rationalize
,
rebut
,
refute
,
register
,
reply
,
resist
,
respond
,
ride shotgun for
,
riposte
,
safeguard
,
save
,
say in defense
,
screen
,
secure
,
shelter
,
shield
,
shroud
,
speak for
,
speak up for
,
stand by
,
stand up for
,
stick up for
,
support
,
sustain
,
underwrite
,
uphold
,
urge reasons for
,
utter
,
vent
,
vindicate
,
voice
,
war
,
ward
,
ward off
,
warrant
,
watch over
,
withstand
rebut
collapse
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advocate
,
allege in support
,
answer
,
answer conclusively
,
argue down
,
argue for
,
assert
,
be contrary to
,
belie
,
blow sky-high
,
break
,
call into question
,
challenge
,
champion
,
confound
,
confute
,
contend for
,
contest
,
contradict
,
contravene
,
controvert
,
counter
,
countercharge
,
counterclaim
,
cross
,
crush
,
defeat
,
defend
,
demolish
,
deny
,
destroy
,
devastate
,
disconfirm
,
discredit
,
dismiss
,
dispose of
,
disprove
,
espouse
,
evert
,
expose
,
finish
,
floor
,
gainsay
,
hold off
,
invalidate
,
keep off
,
maintain
,
make a plea
,
make a rebuttal
,
negate
,
nonplus
,
oppugn
,
overthrow
,
overturn
,
overwhelm
,
parry
,
plead for
,
puncture
,
put to silence
,
rebuff
,
reduce to silence
,
refute
,
reject
,
rejoin
,
repel
,
reply
,
repulse
,
respond
,
riposte
,
ruin
,
say in defense
,
settle
,
shoot down
,
shut up
,
silence
,
smash all opposition
,
speak for
,
speak up for
,
squash
,
squelch
,
stand up for
,
stave off
,
stick up for
,
subvert
,
support
,
surrebut
,
surrejoin
,
sustain
,
traverse
,
undermine
,
uphold
,
upset
,
urge reasons for
,
ward off
refute
collapse
prove to be false or incorrect
overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments"
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abjure
,
advocate
,
allege in support
,
answer
,
answer conclusively
,
argue down
,
argue for
,
assert
,
assert the contrary
,
belie
,
break
,
champion
,
confound
,
confute
,
contend for
,
contest
,
contradict
,
contravene
,
controvert
,
counter
,
countercharge
,
counterclaim
,
cross
,
crush
,
defeat
,
defend
,
demolish
,
deny
,
disaffirm
,
disallow
,
disavow
,
disclaim
,
disconfirm
,
dismiss
,
disown
,
dispose of
,
disprove
,
dispute
,
espouse
,
evert
,
finish
,
floor
,
forswear
,
gainsay
,
impugn
,
join issue upon
,
maintain
,
make a plea
,
make a rebuttal
,
nonplus
,
not accept
,
not admit
,
nullify
,
oppose
,
overthrow
,
overturn
,
overwhelm
,
parry
,
plead for
,
put to silence
,
rebut
,
recant
,
reduce to silence
,
refuse to admit
,
rejoin
,
renounce
,
reply
,
repudiate
,
respond
,
retract
,
revoke
,
riposte
,
say in defense
,
settle
,
shut up
,
silence
,
smash all opposition
,
speak for
,
speak up for
,
squash
,
squelch
,
stand up for
,
stick up for
,
subvert
,
support
,
surrebut
,
surrejoin
,
sustain
,
take back
,
take issue with
,
undermine
,
uphold
,
upset
,
urge reasons for
respond
collapse
respond favorably or as hoped; "The cancer responded to the aggressive therapy"
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acknowledge
,
act
,
advocate
,
allege in support
,
alternate
,
answer
,
answer back
,
antiphon
,
apprehend
,
argue for
,
assert
,
bandy
,
be affected
,
be aware of
,
be conscious of
,
be in tune
,
be inspired
,
be involved
,
be moved
,
be quits with
,
be sensible of
,
behave
,
care about
,
catch the flame
,
catch the infection
,
champion
,
change
,
change color
,
color with emotion
,
come back
,
come back at
,
come in
,
commute
,
compensate
,
contend for
,
cooperate
,
counter
,
counterchange
,
defend
,
dig
,
echo
,
empathize with
,
espouse
,
exchange
,
experience
,
feel
,
feel for
,
flash back
,
get back at
,
get even with
,
give acknowledgment
,
give and take
,
give answer
,
hear
,
identify with
,
interchange
,
logroll
,
maintain
,
make a plea
,
pay back
,
perceive
,
permute
,
pity
,
plead for
,
react
,
rebut
,
reciprocate
,
reecho
,
refute
,
rejoin
,
rejoinder
,
relate to emotionally
,
reply
,
requite
,
respond to
,
respond to stimuli
,
response
,
retaliate
,
retort
,
return
,
return answer
,
return for answer
,
return the compliment
,
reverberate
,
riposte
,
say
,
say in defense
,
say in reply
,
see
,
sense
,
share
,
shoot back
,
smell
,
snap back
,
speak for
,
speak up for
,
stand up for
,
stick up for
,
support
,
sustain
,
swap
,
switch
,
sympathize with
,
take the bait
,
talk back
,
taste
,
touch
,
trade
,
transpose
,
uphold
,
urge reasons for
riposte
collapse
(fencing) a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying the opponents lunge
make a return thrust; "his opponent riposted"
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acknowledge
,
acknowledgment
,
advocate
,
allege in support
,
answer
,
answer back
,
answering
,
antiphon
,
aphorism
,
apothegm
,
argue for
,
argument
,
assert
,
back answer
,
back talk
,
backchat
,
bon mot
,
boutade
,
bright idea
,
bright thought
,
brilliant idea
,
champion
,
come back
,
come back at
,
comeback
,
conceit
,
contend for
,
counter
,
counterstatement
,
crack
,
defend
,
defense
,
demurrer
,
denial
,
echo
,
epigram
,
espouse
,
evasive reply
,
exception
,
facetiae
,
flash back
,
flash of wit
,
flight of wit
,
gibe
,
give acknowledgment
,
give answer
,
happy thought
,
maintain
,
make a plea
,
mot
,
nasty crack
,
objection
,
persiflage
,
play of wit
,
plea
,
plead for
,
pleading
,
pleasantry
,
quip
,
quips and cranks
,
react
,
reaction
,
ready reply
,
rebut
,
rebuttal
,
receipt
,
reecho
,
refutation
,
refute
,
rejoin
,
rejoinder
,
repartee
,
replication
,
reply
,
repost
,
rescript
,
rescription
,
respond
,
respondence
,
response
,
responsion
,
responsory
,
retort
,
return
,
return answer
,
return for answer
,
reverberate
,
reverberation
,
sally
,
say
,
say in defense
,
say in reply
,
scintillation
,
shoot back
,
short answer
,
smart crack
,
smart saying
,
snap back
,
snappy comeback
,
speak for
,
speak up for
,
special demurrer
,
special pleading
,
stand up for
,
statement of defense
,
stick up for
,
stroke of wit
,
support
,
sustain
,
take the bait
,
talk back
,
turn of thought
,
uphold
,
urge reasons for
,
wisecrack
,
witticism
,
witty reply
,
witty retort
,
yes-and-no answer
uphold
collapse
stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals
support against an opponent; "The appellate court upheld the verdict"
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OK
,
accept
,
admire
,
advocate
,
affirm
,
afford support
,
aid
,
allege in support
,
answer
,
approve
,
approve of
,
argue for
,
assert
,
assist
,
attest
,
authenticate
,
back
,
back up
,
backstop
,
bear
,
bear out
,
bear up
,
bless
,
bolster
,
bolster up
,
boost
,
brace
,
buoy
,
buoy up
,
buttress
,
carry
,
cast up
,
certify
,
champion
,
circumstantiate
,
confirm
,
conserve
,
contend for
,
copyright
,
corroborate
,
countenance
,
counter
,
cradle
,
crutch
,
cushion
,
defend
,
document
,
elevate
,
embrace
,
endorse
,
erect
,
escalate
,
espouse
,
esteem
,
favor
,
finance
,
float
,
float high
,
fortify
,
fund
,
give support
,
guard
,
heave
,
heft
,
heighten
,
heist
,
help
,
hike
,
hoick
,
hoist
,
hold
,
hold up
,
hold with
,
jerk up
,
justify
,
keep
,
keep afloat
,
keep alive
,
keep in countenance
,
keep intact
,
keep inviolate
,
keep safe
,
keep up
,
knock up
,
lend support
,
levitate
,
lift
,
lift up
,
lob
,
loft
,
mainstay
,
maintain
,
make a plea
,
not destroy
,
not endanger
,
not expend
,
not use up
,
not waste
,
patent
,
perk up
,
pick up
,
pillow
,
plead for
,
preserve
,
probate
,
promote
,
prop
,
prop up
,
protect
,
prove
,
raise
,
raise up
,
ratify
,
rear
,
rear up
,
rebut
,
refute
,
register
,
reinforce
,
reply
,
respect
,
respond
,
ride high
,
riposte
,
rise
,
sanction
,
save
,
say in defense
,
set up
,
shore
,
shore up
,
shoulder
,
side with
,
sky
,
spare
,
speak for
,
speak up for
,
stand by
,
stand up for
,
stay
,
stick up
,
stick up for
,
strengthen
,
subsidize
,
substantiate
,
subvention
,
subventionize
,
support
,
sustain
,
take kindly to
,
take up
,
think well of
,
throw up
,
underbrace
,
undergird
,
underlie
,
underpin
,
underset
,
up
,
upbear
,
upbuoy
,
upcast
,
upheave
,
uphoist
,
upkeep
,
uplift
,
upraise
,
uprear
,
upthrow
,
urge reasons for
,
validate
,
verify
,
view with favor
,
vindicate
,
waft
,
warrant
reply
collapse
the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange; "he growled his reply"
related words >
ESP
,
acknowledge
,
acknowledgment
,
action and reaction
,
advocate
,
allege in support
,
answer
,
answer back
,
answering
,
antiphon
,
approach
,
argue for
,
argument
,
assert
,
automatic reaction
,
autonomic reaction
,
back answer
,
back talk
,
backchat
,
billet
,
boomerang
,
bounceback
,
business letter
,
champion
,
chit
,
come back
,
come back at
,
come in
,
comeback
,
commerce
,
communicate with
,
communication
,
communion
,
congress
,
connection
,
contact
,
contend for
,
conversation
,
converse
,
correspond
,
correspondence
,
counter
,
counterblast
,
counterblow
,
counterstatement
,
counterstroke
,
dealing
,
dealings
,
defend
,
defense
,
demurrer
,
denial
,
dispatch
,
echo
,
epistle
,
espouse
,
establish connection
,
evasive reply
,
exception
,
exchange
,
favor
,
flash back
,
get to
,
give acknowledgment
,
give answer
,
give-and-take
,
information
,
interaction
,
interchange
,
intercommunication
,
intercommunion
,
intercourse
,
interplay
,
interrogate
,
letter
,
line
,
linguistic intercourse
,
maintain
,
maintain connection
,
make a plea
,
make advances
,
make contact with
,
make overtures
,
make up to
,
message
,
missive
,
note
,
objection
,
plea
,
plead for
,
pleading
,
predictable response
,
question
,
raise
,
reach
,
react
,
reaction
,
ready reply
,
rebut
,
rebuttal
,
receipt
,
reciprocation
,
recoil
,
reecho
,
reflection
,
reflex
,
reflex action
,
refluence
,
reflux
,
refutation
,
refute
,
rejoin
,
rejoinder
,
relate to
,
repartee
,
replication
,
reply to
,
repost
,
rescript
,
rescription
,
respond
,
respond to
,
respondence
,
response
,
responsion
,
responsory
,
retaliation
,
retort
,
retroaction
,
return
,
return answer
,
return for answer
,
reverberate
,
reverberation
,
revulsion
,
riposte
,
rise
,
say
,
say in defense
,
say in reply
,
shoot back
,
short answer
,
snap back
,
snappy comeback
,
social intercourse
,
speak for
,
speak up for
,
speaking
,
special demurrer
,
special pleading
,
speech
,
speech circuit
,
speech situation
,
stand up for
,
statement of defense
,
stick up for
,
support
,
sustain
,
take the bait
,
talk back
,
talking
,
telepathy
,
touch
,
traffic
,
truck
,
two-way communication
,
unthinking response
,
uphold
,
urge reasons for
,
witty reply
,
witty retort
,
yes-and-no answer
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