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  • 41propose — I verb advance, advise, advocate, contend, counsel, declare, introduce, lay before, make a motion, make a suggestion, move, nominate, offer, plan, ponere, pose, postulate, present, proffer, propound, put forward, recommend, set forth, submit,… …

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  • 42posit — I verb acknowledge, advance, advocate, affirm, allege, announce, argue, assert, asseverate, assume, attest, aver, avouch, avow, bring forward, certify, cite, claim, contend, declare, enunciate, express, hypothesize, inform, insist, issue a… …

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  • 43postulate — I noun assertion, assumed truth, assumption, axiom, conjecture, foundation, hypothesis, premise, speculation, starting point, statement, suggestion, sumptio, supposal, supposition, surmise, theorem, thesis, truism II verb advance, assume,… …

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  • 44suggest — sug·gest vt 1: to mention or imply as a possibility 2: to enter on the record as a suggestion Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. suggest …

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  • 45pose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. attitude, affectation; position, posture; aspect, figure. See form. v. sit; attitudinize, affect; propound; question, puzzle, quiz, inquire, nonplus. See difficulty. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. artificial …

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  • 46propose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. propound, advance, present, state; recommend, suggest; court, woo; intend; proffer, nominate. See endearment, supposition, submission. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To make a suggestion] Syn. suggest, offer …

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  • 47purpose — [13] Purpose, propose [14], and propound [16] are ultimately the same word. All go back to Latin prōpōnere ‘put forward, declare’, a compound verb formed from the prefix prō ‘forward’ and pōnere ‘place’ (source of English pose, position, etc).… …

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  • 48purpose — [13] Purpose, propose [14], and propound [16] are ultimately the same word. All go back to Latin prōpōnere ‘put forward, declare’, a compound verb formed from the prefix prō ‘forward’ and pōnere ‘place’ (source of English pose, position, etc).… …

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  • 49propone — prōˈpōn transitive verb ( ed/ ing/ s) Etymology: Middle English (Scots) proponen, from Latin proponere to display, declare, propound more at propound 1. Scotland : propose, propound …

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  • 50pro|pound´er — pro|pound «pruh POWND», transitive verb. to put forward; propose: »to propound a theory, to propound a riddle, to propound a question. ╂[alteration of propone] –pro|pound´er, noun …

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