Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
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Verb
S: (v) profess (practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about) "She professes organic chemistry"
S: (v) profess (confess one's faith in, or allegiance to) "The terrorists professed allegiance to their country"; "he professes to be a Communist"
S: (v) concede, profess, confess (admit (to a wrongdoing)) "She confessed that she had taken the money"
S: (v) profess (state freely) "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades"
S: (v) profess (receive into a religious order or congregation)
S: (v) profess (take vows, as in religious order) "she professed herself as a nun"
S: (v) profess, pretend (state insincerely) "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine"