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  • 71hock — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t., informal, pawn, pledge (see borrowing). II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. pawn, sell temporarily, pledge, deposit; see pawn , sell 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. pawn. IV (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb… …

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  • 72pawn — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. pledge, hock (sl.). See debt, security. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A person used for another s purposes] Syn. cat s paw, dupe, fool; see tool 2 , victim 2 . 2. [Something given as security] Syn. pledge …

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  • 73security — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Guaranty Nouns 1. security, guaranty, guarantee; gage, warranty, bond, tie, pledge, plight, mortgage, debenture, hypothecation, bill of sale, lien, pawn; stake, deposit, earnest, collateral. See promise …

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  • 74Security — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Security >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 security security Sgm: N 1 guaranty guaranty guarantee Sgm: N 1 gage gage warranty bond tie pledge plight mortgage debenture …

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  • 75plight — I. v. a. Pledge, pawn, hypothecate, put in pledge, give as security. II. n. 1. Pledge, pawn, gage, security. 2. Condition, state, situation, case, predicament, category, dilemma, scrape …

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  • 76assume — v 1. suppose, presuppose, premise, presume, take for granted; postulate, posit, predicate, theorize, hypothesize, hypothecate, speculate; suspect, imagine, surmise, guess; believe, fancy, think; infer, Inf. take it, understand, gather, conjecture …

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  • 77commit — v 1. entrust, commend, confide, vest in, charge with; assign, relegate, appoint, commission, authorize, depute, delegate, invest, empower; send, dispatch, consign, hand over, give over, sign over, deliver, render, surrender, submit, yield;… …

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  • 78conjecture — n 1. guess, surmise, speculation, Sl. shot in the dark; assumption, supposition, presupposition, premise, presumption; hypothesis, thesis, theory, postulate, postulation; augury, forecast. 2. suspicion, inkling, feeling; intuition, divination,… …

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  • 79hypothesize — v postulate, post, predicate, theorize, hypothecate; offer, submit, put forward, extend; conjecture, guess, surmise, assume, presume, suppose, presuppose; infer, deduce, conclude, find …

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  • 80mortgage — n 1.Law. pledge, guaranty, warranty, security, collateral security. 2. bond, debenture, debenture bond, mortgage debenture, lien, mortgage instrument. v 3. obligate, pledge, hypothecate, put up for security, place under lien, Inf. hock …

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