BROACH

bring up, announce, begin to talk about

SYN - initiate

"He knew that someone at some time durign the evening was going to have to broach the adulterious situation which had been the reason for their get together. His hope was to abscond from the room before the topic came up and thus avoid lying about his involvement."

"He had been waiting for just the right time to broach the release of his latest book."

"Without himself broaching the topic, the not-so-humble Brad had hoped someone would mention his once dominating performance on the golf course."

"He intended to broach the burgeoning prices of pastoral land at this meeting of bucolics."