Assert and Except

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

• Take exception to.
  • usage: "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday"
  • synonyms: demur
• Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
  • usage: "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
  • synonyms: exclude, leave out, leave off, omit, take out

• (v.t.) To object to; to protest against.
• (prep.) With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
• (v.i.) To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
• (v.t.) To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
• (conj.) Unless; if it be not so that.