promise
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(verb) make a promise or commitment |
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Synonyms: assure |
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Related Words: contract, declare, guarantee, pledge, plight, swear off, undertake |
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(verb) promise to undertake or give; "I promise you my best effort" |
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Related Words: declare, vouchsafe |
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(verb) give grounds for expectations; "The new results were promising"; "The results promised fame and glory" |
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Related Words: be |
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(noun) grounds for feeling hopeful about the future; "there is little or no promise that he will recover" |
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Synonyms: hope |
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Related Words: expectation, outlook, prospect, supernatural virtue, theological virtue |
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(noun) a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future |
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Related Words: betrothal, commitment, dedication, engagement, parole, pinning, rain check, speech act, troth, word, word of honor |
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(verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" |
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Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate |
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Related Words: augur, bet, calculate, forecast, guess, hazard, outguess, prophesy, read, secondguess, venture, wager |
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