| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | The right or chance to express an opinion or participate in a decision: suffrage, voice, vote. Informal : say-so. See PARTICIPATE. | | VERB: | 1. To put into words positively and with conviction: affirm, allege, argue, assert, asseverate, aver, avouch, avow, claim, contend, declare, hold, maintain, state. Idioms: have it. See AFFIRM. 2. To produce or make (speech sounds): articulate, enunciate, pronounce, utter1, vocalize. See WORDS. 3. To put into words: articulate, communicate, convey, declare, express, state, talk, tell, utter1, vent, verbalize, vocalize, voice. Idioms: give tongue (or vent) (or voice) to. See WORDS.
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