(aver - to positively state or formally declare)The college president would often aver that he had faith in the faculty.I cannot aver my innocence in the matter.
A man taking a poll asked me who my favorite candidate was; what a foolish notion!Prior to the 15th century, many scientists dismissed a rotating Earth as a foolish notion.
As Tom placed the petre dish, containing the anaerobe bacteria, into the chamber and flipped the switch to suck out the atmosphere, he wondered about the kind of life that could survive in the...