Assert and Query

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.

noun

• An instance of questioning.
  • usage: "there was a question about my training"; "we made inquiries of all those who were present"
  • synonyms: question, inquiry, enquiry, interrogation

verb

• Pose a question.
  • synonyms: question

• (v.i.) To ask questions; to make inquiry.
• (n.) A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity.
• (n.) A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.
• (v.t.) To doubt of; to regard with incredulity.
• (v.t.) To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into; as, to query the items or the amount; to query the motive or the fact.
• (n.) An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt.
• (v.i.) To have a doubt; as, I query if he is right.
• (v.t.) To write " query" (qu., qy. or ?) against, as a doubtful spelling or sense, in a proof. See Quaere.
• (v.t.) To address questions to; to examine by questions.