Assert and Involve

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

• Connect closely and often incriminatingly.
  • usage: "This new ruling affects your business"
  • synonyms: affect, regard
• Engage as a participant.
  • usage: "Don't involve me in your family affairs"
• Have as a necessary feature.
  • usage: "This decision involves many changes"
  • synonyms: imply
• Require as useful, just, or proper.
  • usage: "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
  • synonyms: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, call for, demand
• Contain as a part.
  • usage: "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"
• Occupy or engage the interest of.
  • usage: "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
• Make complex or intricate or complicated.
  • usage: "The situation was rather involved"

• (v.t.) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
• (v.t.) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
• (v.t.) To envelop, infold, entangle or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.
• (v.t.) To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
• (v.t.) To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ or absorb.
• (v.t.) To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
• (v.t.) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
• (v.t.) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.