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Agree
verb · 78% connection
To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common res…
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Agreement
noun · 78% connection
A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or…
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Bilateral contract
noun · 78% connection
a contract involving mutual promises (each party is both promisor and promisee)
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Broken
verb · 78% connection
Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.
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Covenant
noun · 78% connection
The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures, conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience, repentance, faith, e…
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Credit
noun · 78% connection
Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile repu…
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Dispensation
noun · 78% connection
A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dis…
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Embracery
noun · 78% connection
An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper ind…
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Fair
superl. · 78% connection
Pleasing; favorable; inspiring hope and confidence; -- said of words, promises, etc.
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Faith
noun · 78% connection
Fidelity to one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved; loyalty.
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Faithful
adjective · 78% connection
Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God.
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Faithless
adjective · 78% connection
Not observant of promises or covenants.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: promises.
False
superl. · 78% connection
Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subje…
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Glib
adjective · 78% connection
having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a slick commercial"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: promises.
Godchild
noun · 78% connection
One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Go…
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Hope
noun · 78% connection
One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good.
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Illusory
adjective · 78% connection
Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes.
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Lure
noun · 78% connection
To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: promises.