Reporting Verbs

1. Accedes 2. accentuates 3. Accepts the view that 4. accords with 5. accounts for 6. Acknowledges 7. Achieves 8. adopts the view that 9. Admits 10. Adds 11. Addresses 12. advances 13. Advocates 14. Agrees 15. Affirms 16. Alleges 17. Analyses 18. Appears to put forward/ suggest 19. Applauds 20. Argues 21. articulates 22. Asks 23. Asserts 24. Assumes 25. assures 26. Attaches 27. Attempted 28. Believes\ 29. Builds on 30. Carry out 31. Characterises 32. Cites 33. Claims 34. Collates 35. Comments 36. Conceives 37. concedes 38. concurs 39. Concludes 40. Conduct 41. Confines 42. Confirms 43. conjectures 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. Considers Contends contradicts Converts Critiques Deals with Debates Defines Demands Denotes Describes Demonstrates details Develops Disregards Discovers discounts Discusses dismisses diputes Disregards dissents diverges Doubts Draws attention Emphasises Encapsulates Enlighten establishes Estimates Evaluates Examines Exemplifies Explains Expands Expresses favours Finds Focuses on Generalises Highlights hints Holds the view that Hypothesises Illustrates Implies improves ignores Identifies 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. Incorporates Indicates infers Innovates Insists 99. Interprets 100. intimate 101. Investigate 102. Isolates 103. Feels 104. Finds 105. Labels 106. Lists 107. looks on 108. maintains 109. Makes clear 110. Measures 111. Mentions 112. Mistrusts 113. Modifies 114. Moots 115. Notes 116. Neglects 117. Obtains 118. Opposes 119. Outlines 120. overcomes 121. Overlooks 122. Perceives 123. Performs 124. Points out 125. Points to 126. poses 127. Praises 128. Predicts 129. Presumes 130. Proposes 131. propounds 132. popularises 133. Provides 134. poses 135. Posits 136. Postulates 137. probes 138. profers 139. 140. 141. 142. 143. 144. 145. 146. 147. 148. 149. 150. 151. 152. 153. 154. 155. 156. 157. 158. 159. 160. 161. 162. 163. 164. profess Proves Puts forward Questions Quotes Reasons Rebuts rebuffs recognises Reconciles Reformulates reflect on Refutes Rejects regards Reinforces Relies on repudiates Remarks Reminds Reveals Reviews Reports Researches Reflects Says Scrutinises Shares the view Sheds light on Shows Speculates States Studies Stresses Subscribes to Suggests Summarises Supports surmises Surveys Suspects Synthesises tackles takes the view takes X to be. Thinks Throws light on Traces Transfers Undertakes underscores Writes

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59. 60. 61.

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63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71.

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166. 167. 168. 169. 170. 171. 172. 173. 174. 175. 176. 177. 178. 179. 180. 181. 182. that 183. 184. 185. 186. 187. 188. 189. 190.

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