1) Argue 2) Exclaim 1) Argue 2) Reason 3) Reason earnestly 4) To protest or remonstrate 
to remonstrate; to discuss or reason with
• (v. t.) To discuss; to examine. • (v. i.) To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with.
Ex·pos'tu·late intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Expostulated; present participle & verbal noun Expostulating .] [ Latin expostulatus , past participle of expostulare to demand vehemently; ex out + 
argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest 
[v] - reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion
verb reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion
to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done; remonstrate: His father expostulated with him about the evils of gambling.
[Literary terms] reason with for the purpose of dissuasion