pledge, vow, commitment, hope, assurances, guarantee, expectation, prediction, insistence, dreams, manifesto, ambition, mantra, prophesies, demands, payoff, desire, obligation, overtures, bargain, faith, ideals, eagerness, pleas, mandate, belief, credo, moral obligation, entreaty, mind, progress, potential, vision, announcements, avowal, hippocratic oath, yearning, spirit, axiom, siren song, strides, intention, breakthrough, pretenses, chimera, carrot, blueprint, ardor, willingness, aspiration, determination, temptation, goodness, gains, principles, agreeability, exhortations, zeal, tenet, assertions, spirt, oaths, plans, allure, quest, forevermore, portent, pact, offer, quo vadis, forswearing, incredibility, pleading, truces, wishes, mirage, trust, idealism, urge, olive branch, maxim, chance, raincheck, declarations, tradition, covenant, caveat, proclamations, agreements, recommitment, sense, admonition, message, loyalty, hallmark, notion, trump card, slogan, speeches, hype, inducements, timetable, promises, pledges, assurance, favor, guaranty, favour, idea, im, opportunity, stipulation, assertion, hopes, pre, declaration, ex, surety, law, record, peace, commandment, idol, oath, sabbath, book, contract, gaol, houfe, house, ice, image, norm, parole, strike, trail, adjudicative

augur, bet, betrothal, calculate, engagement, forecast, go back on, outguess, pinning, plight, prophesy, rain check, read, renege, renege on, renegue on, secondguess, swear off, troth, undertake, vouchsafe, wager, word, word of honor

alibi, assure, betrothal, borrower, breach of promise, bright, carrot, certificate of indebtedness, come-on, damn, debt instrument, engagement, enticement, exculpation, excuse, extract, follow-through, fulfillment, fulfilment, give, go back on, guarantee, hold, illusory, insurance, lure, mitomycin, mutamycin, negotiable instrument, note, note of hand, oath, output contract, parole, pinning, pledge, plight, promisee, promiser, promising, promisor, promissory, promissory note, rain check, renege, renege on, renegue on, reservation, rumpelstiltskin, self-justification, solemn, stipulate, swear, swear off, troth, unbreakable, undertake, unilateral contract, unsophisticated, vouchsafe, vow, vower, word, word of honor

be, declare, guess, hazard, outlook, prospect, speech act, venture

anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate