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vaatia — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • accost verb To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
  • argue verb To exchange differing opinions, often heatedly.
  • call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  • claim verb To state that something is true, often without having proved it yet.
  • demand noun In economics, people's desire and ability to buy a particular good or service at a given price.
  • exact adjective Perfectly accurate or precise; matching a standard or fact exactly, with nothing added or missing.
  • govern verb To run the political affairs of a country, state, or region.
  • insist verb To state something firmly and repeatedly, refusing to accept disagreement.
  • necessitate verb To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about.
  • need noun A requirement for something essential or important.
  • require verb To need something as essential.
  • stipulate verb To state clearly as a required condition of an agreement or contract.
  • vindicate verb To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.

Senses

vaatia is used for these senses in English:

  • argue (intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints; to controvert; to wrangle.
  • call To come to pass; to afflict.
  • claim To demand ownership or right to use for land.
  • claim (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
  • demand To request forcefully.
  • demand To require of someone.
  • exact (ambitransitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
  • govern (transitive, grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.

accost — full definition

  1. verb To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
  2. verb To join side to side; to border.
  3. verb To sail along the coast or side of.
  4. verb To approach; to come up to.

argue — full definition

  1. verb To exchange differing opinions, often heatedly.
  2. verb To give reasons in support of a position.

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