Rhetorically Precise Verbs

What is a rhetorically precise verb? A rhetorically precise verb describes the nature of the rhetoric used.

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Accentuates Accepts Achieves Adds Adopts Advocates Affects Affirms Alleges Alleviates Allows Alludes Amplifies Analogizes Analyzes Approaches Argues Ascertains Asserts Assesses Assails Assumes Attacks Attempts Attests Attributes Augments Avoids Bases Believes Bolsters Bombards Challenges Championed Changes Characterizes Chooses Chronicles Claims Clarifies Comments Compares Completes Concerns Concludes Condemns Condescends Conducts Conforms Confronts Connotes Considers Constrains Constructs Contends Contests Contradicts Contributes Conveys Convinces Creates Critiques Declares Deduces Defends Defines Defies Delineates Demonstrates Denigrates Denotes Denounces Depicts Describes Details Determines Develops Deviates Differentiates Differs Direct Disappoints Discern Discovers Discusses Dispels Displays Disputes Disrupts Dissuades Distinguishes Distorts Downplays Dramatizes	Elevates Elicits Elucidates Embodies Empathizes Emphasizes Empowers Encounters Enhances Enlightens Enriches Enumerates Envisions Escalates Establishes Evokes Evaluates Excludes Exhibits Expands Experiences Explains Explicates Expresses Exemplifies Extends Extrapolates Fantasizes Focuses Forces Foreshadows Forewarns Fortifies Fosters Functions Generalizes Guides Hints Holds Honors Heightens Highlights Identifies Illuminates Illustrates Imagines Impels Implements Implies Includes Indicates Infers Initiates Inspires Intends Intensifies Interprets Interrupts Introduces Innundates Juxtaposes Justifies Lampoons Lists Maintains Magnifies Manages Manipulates Masters Meanders Minimizes Moralizes Motivates Muses Notes Observes Opines Opposes Organizes Outlines Overstates	Paints Patronizes Performs Permeates Permits Personifies Persuades Pervades Ponders Portrays Postulates Predicts Prepares Presents Presumes Produces Projects Promotes Proposes Provides Provokes Purports Qualifies Questions Rationalizes Reasons Recalls Recapitulates Recites Recollects Records Recounts Reflects Refers Refutes Regales Regards Regrets Relates Reinforces Rejects Remarks Represents Repudiates Reveals Reverts Ridicules Satirizes Sees Selects Serves Solidifies Specifies Speculates States Strives Suggests Summarizes Supplies Supports Suppresses Sustains Symbolizes Sympathizes Traces Transcends Transforms Understands Understates Unpacks Uses Vacillates Values Verifies Views Wants Wishes		Words to AVOID in academic writing. (Note: This is not an all-encompassing list! Any vague or empty language should be avoided.) A lot Very Many Things Lots Stuff Ways Really Absolutely Amazing Awesome Interesting Bad Great Definitely Extremely Nice Wonderful Good