Assert and Question

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: inquiry, enquiry, query, interrogation
• The subject matter at issue.
  • usage: "the question of disease merits serious discussion"; "under the head of minor Roman poets"
  • synonyms: head
• A sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply.
  • usage: "he asked a direct question"; "he had trouble phrasing his interrogations"
  • synonyms: interrogation, interrogative, interrogative sentence
• Uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something.
  • usage: "the dubiousness of his claim"; "there is no question about the validity of the enterprise"
  • synonyms: doubt, dubiousness, doubtfulness
• A formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote.
  • usage: "he made a motion to adjourn"; "she called for the question"
  • synonyms: motion
• An informal reference to a marriage proposal.
  • usage: "he was ready to pop the question"

verb

• Challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of.
  • usage: "We must question your judgment in this matter"
  • synonyms: oppugn, call into question
• Pose a series of questions to.
  • usage: "The suspect was questioned by the police"; "We questioned the survivor about the details of the explosion"
  • synonyms: interrogate
• Pose a question.
  • synonyms: query
• Conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting.
  • synonyms: interview
• Place in doubt or express doubtful speculation.
  • usage: "I wonder whether this was the right thing to do"; "she wondered whether it would snow tonight"
  • synonyms: wonder

• (n.) Hence, a subject of investigation, examination or debate; theme of inquiry; matter to be inquired into; as, a delicate or doubtful question.
• (n.) Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question.
• (v.t.) To raise a question about; to call in question; to make objection to.
• (n.) Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture.
• (v.t.) To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.
• (n.) To ask questions; to inquire.
• (n.) Talk; conversation; speech; speech.
• (v.t.) To talk to; to converse with.
• (n.) The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.
• (n.) That which is asked; inquiry; interrogatory; query.
• (v.t.) To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.
• (n.) To argue; to converse; to dispute.