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asseverate \uh-SEV-uh-rayt\, transitive verb:
- To affirm or declare positively or earnestly.
Asseverate comes from Latin asseverare, "to assert seriously or earnestly," from ad- + severus, "severe, serious."
- A businessman who is looking to buy companies at giveaway prices, as opposed to venture capitalists.
"It's well known that the business is having major problems paying its bills, so I guess it won't be long before the vulture capitalists start circling."
History- Kenesaw Mountain Landis: judge was elected the first commissioner of baseball after the Black Sox scandal (1920)
- Leon Trotsky: was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became the Soviet ruler (1927)
- Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge: eight-mile-long structure opened for traffic (1936)
- Ellis Island: the New York Harbor facility, which served more than 12 million immigrants, was closed (1954)
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815
- Auguste Rodin 1840
- Jo Stafford 1918
- Richard Quine 1920
- Kim Hunter 1922
- Sunset Carson (Michael Harrison) 1922
- Grace Kelly 1929
- Jack Oakie 1930
- Charles Manson 1934
- Ruby Nash Curtis (Ruby & the Romantics) 1939
- Brian Hyland 1943
- Wallace Shawn 1943
- Jimmy Hayes (Persuasions) 1943
- Al Michaels 1944
- Booker T. Jones (Booker T. & the MGs) 1944
- Neil Young 1945
- Barbara Fairchild 1950
- Megan Mullally 1958
- Nadia Comaneci 1961
- David Ellefson (Megadeth) 1964
- Tony Montana (Great White) 1965
- Tonya Harding 1970
- Angela Watson 1974
- Tevin Campbell 1976
- Anne Hathaway 1982
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