Assert and Induce

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

• Cause to arise.
  • usage: "induce a crisis"
  • synonyms: bring on
• Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner.
  • usage: "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"
  • synonyms: stimulate, cause, have, get, make
• Cause to occur rapidly.
  • usage: "the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions"
  • synonyms: stimulate, rush, hasten
• Reason or establish by induction.
• Produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes.
  • synonyms: induct

• (v.t.) To lead in; to introduce.
• (v.t.) To draw on; to overspread.
• (v.t.) To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence.
• (v.t.) To produce or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state.
• (v.t.) To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure.
• (v.t.) To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of deduce.