Assert and Afford

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

verb

• Be able to spare or give up.
  • usage: "I can't afford to spend two hours with this person"
• Be the cause or source of.
  • usage: "He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"
  • synonyms: yield, give
• Have the financial means to do something or buy something.
  • usage: "We can't afford to send our children to college"; "Can you afford this car"
• Afford access to.
  • usage: "the door opens to the patio"; "The French doors give onto a terrace"
  • synonyms: open, give

• (v.t.) To give forth; to supply, yield or produce as the natural result, fruit or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.
• (v.t.) To give, grant or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age.
• (v.t.) To offer, provide or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.
• (v.t.) To incur, stand or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; -- with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough.