To asseverate (uh-SEV-uh-rate) — from the Latin for “spoken in earnest” — is to emphatically declare.
Example (as used by David Cross today): “Though our ionizer really was the best one on the market, simply saying that would have been a weak strategy. Our new competitor could have asseverated that theirs was better — and cheaper to boot.”
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