| agreement |
Some agreements are a serious and special promise. If someone accepts this type of agreement, it means that they will be breaking a rule or a law if they do not do what they promise. Usually this kind of agreement is written on paper, and a person signs their name on the paper to accept it. [1/4 definitions] |
| bet |
A bet is your promise to pay another person in some way if your guess about something is wrong. [1/3 definitions] |
| borrow |
to take with the promise to return or replace. [1/2 definitions] |
| bound1 |
When you are bound by a promise or a legal requirement to do something, you must do it. It is your duty or your responsibility. [1/5 definitions] |
| breach |
an act of breaking a law or promise. [1/4 definitions] |
| break |
When you break something, it sometimes means that you don't obey, or you don't do what you are supposed to do. When you break the law, you do something that the law says you can't do. If you break a promise, you don't do the thing that you promised. [1/9 definitions] |
| commit |
When you commit your time, your money, or your effort to something, you make a promise to give these things to help or support something. You make this promise and you also do what you promise. Sometimes the promise is just one you make to yourself, and sometimes the promise is to do things that are necessary to help yourself. [1/2 definitions] |
| engage |
to promise (oneself or another), especially with the aim of entering into marriage. [1/6 definitions] |
| engaged |
keeping a promise and plan of marriage. |
| engagement |
a promise to marry, or a period of time before a promised marriage. [1/3 definitions] |
| faithful |
When someone is faithful, you can trust or be sure of them. A faithful friend will be loyal to you and do what they promise to do. [1/3 definitions] |
| favorable |
showing the promise of something good. [1/3 definitions] |
| fulfill |
If someone fulfills their promise to someone, they carry out what they promised. They do the thing that they promised to do. If someone fulfills a duty, they do what their duty requires them to do. [1/3 definitions] |
| guarantee |
a promise, especially in writing, that something one has bought will work properly. If it does not, the seller or maker must either repair or replace it. [3/5 definitions] |
| hand |
a promise of marriage. [1/11 definitions] |
| if |
Let's imagine that your friend says, "If you promise to pay me back next week, I will pay for your movie ticket." This means that you can only see the movie by promising to pay back the money next week. You can refuse to promise but that will mean that your friend will not pay for your ticket. [1/4 definitions] |
| insurance |
Insurance is a kind of protection against bad things happening to you. The protection comes from a promise of an "insurance company" to pay money to you if certain bad things happen. In order to have this protection, you pay the company some amount of money regularly. People have insurance to help them in case something happens like a fire, flood, car accident, or theft. There are many kinds of insurance. |
| keep |
When you keep a promise, it means that you will do what you said you will do. [1/8 definitions] |
| kidnap |
When people kidnap someone, they take that person to a secret place and keep them like a prisoner in order to get money from someone else. They promise they will let this person go free if they are given the money they ask for. |
| lure |
to attract with the promise of a reward. [1/3 definitions] |
| nun1 |
a woman who is a member of a religious order. Nuns promise to live simply, not marry, and obey God. Many nuns live in convents. |