says

• accepts
• add
• advertises
• affirm
• affirms
• airs
• allege
• alleges
• announce
• announces
• answer
• articulates
• assert
• asserts
• assumes
• avers
• avouches
• avows
• ballots
• beliefs
• believes
• blabbers
• blazes
• blurts
• bolts
• break silence
• breathes
• brings out
• broadcasts
• chirps
• claim
• claims
• clothes
• come out with
• comments
• communicate
• communicates
• conceives
• concludes
• conjecture
• conjectures
• cons
• contends
• convey
• convictions
• couches
• crafts
• credits
• declaims
• declare
• declares
• deduces
• deliver
• describes
• disclose
• discloses
• discusses
• divulge
• do
• drawls
• dreams
• enfranchisements
• enunciates
• estimate
• express
• expresses
• fancies
• figures
• flap
• formulates
• formulizes
• frames
• franchises
• gab
• gasps
• gathers
• gets off
• give voice
• gives
• guess
• guesses
• hints
• hypothecates
• hypothesizes
• imagine
• imagines
• implies
• imply
• infers
• insinuates
• insists
• intimates
• jaw
• judge
• judgements
• judges
• judgments
• learns
• lip
• lips
• looks
• maintain
• maintains
• make known
• memorizes
• mention
• mouths
• murmurs
• opine
• opinions
• orate
• orates
• paraphrases
• parts
• passes
• perceives
• perform
• phrases
• posts
• postulates
• preconceives
• premises
• presumes
• presupposes
• proclaims
• professes
• promulgates
• pronounce
• publicizes
• publishes
• purrs
• put forth
• put into words
• puts
• puts into words
• rap
• read
• recite
• recites
• reckons
• reels off
• rehearse
• relate
• remark
• remarks
• render
• renders
• repeat
• repeats
• rephrases
• reply
• report
• respond
• restates
• reveal
• rewords
• roles
• rumor
• say-sos
• sentiments
• shares
• shoots
• shouts
• snarls
• sounds
• speak
• speaks
• speculates
• spiel
• splutters
• spouts
• state
• states
• studies
• suffrages
• suggest
• suggests
• summarizes
• supposes
• surmises
• suspects
• suspicions
• swallows
• takes
• takes for granted
• talks
• tell
• tells
• theorizes
• thinks
• translates
• utter
• utters
• ventilates
• vents
• verbalize
• verbalizes
• views
• vocalizes
• voice
• voices
• votes
• whispers
• words
• writes up
• yak

• ask
• be quiet
• belies
• challenges
• conceal
• confutes
• controverts
• denies
• deny
• disavows
• disbelieves
• disclaim
• disclaims
• discounts
• discredits
• disowns
• disproves
• disputes
• distrusts
• doubts
• fail
• hide
• hold
• keep
• keep secret
• listen
• mistrusts
• neglect
• praise
• question
• questions
• reads
• rebuts
• refrain
• refutes
• rejects
• repudiates
• request
• retain
• stifles
• suppress
• suppresses
• withhold

• noun
  1. A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision.
  2. A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
  3. Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
  4. Tried quality; temper; proof.
  5. Essay; trial; attempt.
  6. A strainer for milk.
• verb
  1. To pronounce.
  2. To recite.
  3. To tell, either verbally or in writing.
  4. To indicate in a written form.
  5. To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
  6. Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
  7. To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
  8. (of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
  9. To try; to assay.

• He says he will be home by 6 PM.
• The sign says no parking after 8 PM.
• She always says the funniest things during class.
• What says the book on this topic?
• He says that he’s going to the gym later.

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