speak for

Strongest matches

• back
• campaign for
• defend
• encourage
• favor
• further
• justify
• press for
• promote
• propose
• push
• recommend
• support
• tout
• uphold
• urge

Strong matches

• advance
• advise
• bless
• bolster
• boost
• champion
• countenance
• plug
• side
• vindicate

Weak matches

• argue for
• be in corner
• brace up
• build up
• get on bandwagon
• give a leg up
• give a lift
• go for
• go to bat for
• go with
• hold with
• plead for
• plump for
• ride shotgun for
• root for
• run interference for
• say so
• spread around
• stump for

Strongest matches

• advance
• advertise
• advocate
• benefit
• bolster
• boost
• build up
• cooperate
• develop
• encourage
• endorse
• further
• improve
• popularize
• publicize
• push
• push for
• sell
• soft sell
• speed
• sponsor
• stimulate
• support
• uphold
• urge

Strong matches

• aid
• assist
• avail
• back
• befriend
• champion
• contribute
• cry
• espouse
• forward
• foster
• hype
• nourish
• nurture
• patronize
• plug
• press-agent
• propagandize
• puff
• recommend
• serve
• subsidize
• succor

Weak matches

• call attention to
• get behind
• work for

Strongest matches

• mean
• perform
• produce
• serve
• serve as
• show

Strong matches

• be
• betoken
• body
• copy
• embody
• enact
• epitomize
• equal
• equate
• exemplify
• exhibit
• express
• factor
• imitate
• impersonate
• personify
• reproduce
• stage
• substitute
• typify

Weak matches

• act as
• act as broker
• act for
• act in place of
• appear as
• assume the role of
• be agent for
• be attorney for
• be proxy for
• buy for
• correspond to
• do business for
• emblematize
• hold office
• play the part
• put on
• sell for
• stand for
• steward

Strongest matches

• advise
• advocate
• appeal to
• ask
• commend
• compel
• endorse
• exhort
• favor
• force
• implore
• press
• promote
• prompt
• propose
• push
• recommend
• request
• support

Strong matches

• adjure
• advance
• attract
• beseech
• champion
• charge
• conjure
• counsel
• countenance
• drive
• entreat
• further
• goad
• hasten
• impel
• incite
• induce
• influence
• inspire
• instigate
• maneuver
• move
• plead
• propel
• rationalize
• sanction
• solicit
• spur
• stimulate
• tempt
• wheedle

Weak matches

• egg on
• fire up
• insist on
• put up to