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Accountable

Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

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Responsible 84% connected

Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Responsible 84% connected

Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Account 74% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Account 74% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Accountability 74% connected

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness.

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Accountability 74% connected

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness.

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Answerable 92% connected

Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answer…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Assurance noun · 78% connection

The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.

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Enable verb · 78% connection

To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.

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Administer verb · 78% connection

To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the gov…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liable, called, render, account, answerable.
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Amenable adjective · 78% connection

Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law.

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Answerableness noun · 78% connection

The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.

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Answerably adverb · 78% connection

In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liable, called, render, account, answerable.
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Assets n. pl. · 78% connection

Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liable, called, render, account, answerable.
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Bear verb · 78% connection

To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liable, called, render, account, answerable.
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Career noun · 78% connection

General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually appli…

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Consistency noun · 78% connection

Agreement or harmony of all parts of a complex thing among themselves, or of the same thing with itself at different times; the harmon…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liable, called, render, account, answerable.
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Criminate verb · 78% connection

To involve in a crime or in its consequences; to render liable to a criminal charge.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liable, called, render, account, answerable.
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Decorum noun · 78% connection

Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occ…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liable, called, render, account, answerable.
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Deprivable adjective · 78% connection

Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed.

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Erratic adjective · 78% connection

Deviating from a wise of the common course in opinion or conduct; eccentric; strange; queer; as, erratic conduct.

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Expose verb · 78% connection

To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially d…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liable, called, render, account, answerable.
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Fallible adjective · 78% connection

Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liable, called, render, account, answerable.
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Forfeit noun · 78% connection

To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to a…

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Fugitive adjective · 78% connection

Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and…

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Guaranty noun · 78% connection

In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answera…

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Incur verb · 78% connection

To render liable or subject to; to occasion.

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