pledged



affianced, affirmed, alleged, announced, answerable for, asserted, asseverated, assured, at stake, attested, averred, avouched, avowed, beholden, beholden to,

   addicted to drink - bibulous, drunken, sottish ,

   slim - Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, adroit, airy, ascetic, attenuate, attenuated, austere, bean pole, beanstalk, boyish, broomstick, canny, cheeseparing,

   siesta - doze, nap, repose, rest, sleep, wink ,

   misstatement - abstractionism, bloomer, blooper, blunder, clerical error, colouring, confabulation, corrigendum, deformation, distortion, equivocation, erratum, error, exaggeration, expressionism,

   sitting room - drawing room, parlour, salon, saloon, solarium ,

   outwit - bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cajole, cheat on, circumvent, conjure, deceive, delude, diddle, double-cross, dupe, elude, evade,

   strum - bum, bumble, buzz, drone, pick, pluck, plunk, thrum, twang ,

   incredibility - bare possibility, credibility gap, implausibility, prodigiousness, rarity, small chance, unlikelihood, unreliability ,

   settled in habit - chronic, confirmed, dyed-in-the-wool, established, fast, fixed, implanted, incorrigible, inculcated, ingrained, instilled, inveterate, irreversible, rooted, set,

   talk down - alight, come down, come in, crash-land, descend, ditch, downwind, filibuster, land, level off, light, outlast, overshoot, pancake, settle down,