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• practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about

  hypernym

  claim

• take vows, as in religious order

  derivation	profession
  other	profession
  hypernym	vow
  hyponym	take the veil
  similar	profess

• admit (to a wrongdoing)

  synonym	concedeconfess
  derivation	profession
  other	profession
  hypernym	acknowledgeadmit
  hyponym	fess upmake a clean breast ofown up

• confess one's faith in, or allegiance to

  derivation	professing
  hypernym	declare

• state insincerely

  synonym	pretend
  hypernym	claim

• receive into a religious order or congregation

  hypernym	acceptadmittaketake on
  similar	profess

• state freely

  hypernym

  declare