Profess
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely. To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of. To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician. To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess. To declare friendship.
Example sentence: All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
Confess
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committedTo disclose or reveal
Example sentence: I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.