Assert and Modulate

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

• Change the key of, in music.
  • usage: "modulate the melody"
• Vary the pitch of one's speech.
  • synonyms: tone, inflect
• Fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of.
  • usage: "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch"
  • synonyms: regulate
• Adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of.
• Vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves. ).

• (v.t.) To form, as sound, to a certain key or to a certain portion.
• (v.i.) To pass from one key into another.
• (v.t.) To vary or inflect in a natural, customary or musical manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking.