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Arrest, indict, convict, acquit, sentence, pardon, parole, reprieve;
Certify as to competence in a field, social pedigree, or sanity;
Disqualify, blacklist, censure, clear;
Ownership – buy, sell, borrow, lent, trade, donate, confer, award, bequethe, bid for, put
up for sale, accept, reject;
Property – appropriate, expropriate, repossess, surrender, deed;
Items – consign,
Adopt
Confer, dedicate, consecrate, enshrine;
Canonize, memorialized, induct, knight

Permit, prohibit, require, abolish,
Sanction, license, exempt, legalize, ban
Authorize, enjoin, assign, delegate, commission, command, countermand, excuse,
Adopt, decree, repeal, revoke, abolish, rescind,
Declare, proclaim, declare over,
Motions – introduce, second, vote on, veto;
Points – raise, object to, rule on, adjudicate, overrule,
Recognize,
Meetings – call to order, recess, adjourn,
Name, abbreviate, code, classify, label, baptize, christen, dub.

5.J. D. McCawley
Verdictives accuse, acquit, analyze, appraise, ascribe, calculate, call, characterize,
charge (a person with a crime), convict, credit, date, denounce, describe,
diagnose, estimate, evaluate, find, grade, guess, hold, interpret as,
locate, make it, measure, place, put (it) as, rank, rate, read (it) as,
reckon, rule, take it, understand, value
Operatives abdicate, accept (an application), adjourn, annul, appoint, authorize,
award, baptize, bequeth, call to order, cancell, charge (a person with a
task), choose, christen, claim, concede, condemn (to death),
countermand, declare (open, closed, the winner), decree, dedicate,
degrade, demote, deputize, dismiss, disown, dub, enact, enter (a plea of
insanity), excommunicate, exonerate, fine, forgive, give, grant, levy,
name, nominate, offer, ordain, overrule (an objection), pardon, permit,
proclaim, pronounce (husband and wife), quash, reinstate, release,
repeal, reprieve, rescind, sentence, sustain (an objection), veto, vote.
Exercitives a) imperatives: admonisg, beg, caution, command, demand, direct,
entreat, forbid, implore, insist, order, plead, pray, request, supplicate;
b) advisories: advise, advocate, counsel, propose, recommend, suggest,
urge, warn.
Commissives adopt, agree to, accept, apply for, assure, bet, bind myself, challenge,
condemn (comeone’s actions), consent, contemplate, contract, covenant,
dare, it’s a deal, defy, declare for, declare my intention, dedicate myself
to, embrace, engage, envisage, espouse, express my
intention/support/opposition, favour, give my word, guarantee, intend,
invite, mean, oppose, order (food..), plan, plead (guilty), pledge myself,