Expostulate

Verb

 * 1) To protest or remonstrate.
 * 2) * Although in most public areas, people may picket and expostulate even though others may object to the message, in certain areas the functioning of the forum takes precedence, provided there are alternative ways the protestor may express his message. (Source)
 * 3) Express disapproval or disagreement.
 * 4) To reason earnestly with intent to dissuade or correct.
 * 5) * Let her never even dream of jealousy. If her husband be dissolute, she must expostulate with him, but never either nurse or vent her anger. If her jealousy be extreme, it will render her countenance frightful and her accents repulsive, and can only result in completely alienating her husband from her, and making her intolerable in his eyes. (Source)
 * 6) * He wanted to plunge in and expostulate with her, and yet he found himself fishing for words and feeling for a way. (Source)
 * 7) To discuss; to examine.
 * 8) * The investigators go on to expostulate that per new diagnostic criteria lymphosarcoma is now classified as lymphoma, and thus is included under the category of NHL. (Source)

Synonyms
challenge; demur; except; inveigh; kick; object; protest; remonstrate; squawk

Adverbs for Expostulate
softly; fiercely; petulantly; madly; mildly; wrathfully; amicably; frantically; frankly.

Thesaurus
admonish, argue, beef, bitch, boggle, boycott, call in question, caution, challenge, charge, combat, complain, cry out against, daunt, debate, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demur, discuss, dispute, dissuade, encourage, enjoin, enter a protest, except, exhort, fight, frighten off, holler, howl, incite, induce, intimidate, inveigh against, issue a caveat, kick, kid out of, march, move, object, oppose, persuade, picket, preach, press objections, prompt, protest, raise a howl, rally, remonstrate, resist, scruple, sit in, squawk, state a grievance, strike, talk out of, teach in, unpersuade, urge, warn, yell bloody murder

Etymology
First attested circa 16th century, from expostulatus, past participle of expostulo, "demand or claim," from ex- + postulo, "demand".