- Security (Substantives), surety, guaranty, guarantee, mortgage, warranty, bond, debenture, pledge, tie, plight, caution, sponsion, hostage, sponsor, bail, parole.
- Observance (Substantives), performance, fulfilment, satisfaction, discharge, compliance, acquittance, quittance, acquittal, adhesion, acknowledgement, fidelity 939.
- Non-observance (Substantives), failure, neglect, laches, laxity, infringement, infraction, violation, forfeiture, transgression.
- Compromise (Substantives), composition, middle term, mezzo termine, modus vivendi; bribe, hush- money.
Deed, instrument, deed-poll, indenture, warrant, charter, cartel, protocol, recognisance; verification, acceptance, endorsement, signature, execution, I O U.
Stake, deposit, pool, earnest, handsel.
(Verbs). To give security, assure, pawn 787, accept, endorse, stamp.
To hold in pledge.
(Verbs). To observe, perform, keep, fulfil, discharge, comply with, meet, satisfy, adhere to, be faithful to, stand to one's engagement, acquit oneself.
(Phrase). To redeem one's pledge.
(Adjectives). Observant, faithful, true, honourable, etc. 939, strict, rigid, punctilious.
(Adverb). Faithfully, etc., to the letter.
(Phrase). As good as one's word.
Retractation, repudiation, nullification, protest, forfeiture.
Informality, lawlessness, disobedience, bad faith 742.
(Verbs). To break, violate, fail, neglect, omit, forfeit, infringe, transgress.
To retract, discard, protest, go back upon or from one's word, repudiate, nullify, ignore, wipe off, cancel, etc. 552, to fob off, palter, elude, evade.
(Phrases). To apply the sponge; to stretch a point.
(Adjectives). Violating, etc., elusive, evasive, transgressive, unfulfilled; etc.; compensatory 30.
(Verbs). To compromise, compound, take the mean, split the difference, come to terms, come to an understanding, to meet one half-way.