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Obligation :: Obligation (n.) A bond with a condition annexed, and a penalty for nonfulfillment. In a larger sense, it is an acknowledgment of a duty to pay a certain sum or do a certain things..

Abdicate :: Abdicate (v. t.) To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc..

Moral :: Moral (a.) Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules..

Accept :: Accept (v. t.) In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.].

Serviceable :: Serviceable (a.) Prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit for, the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent..

Taskmaster :: Taskmaster (n.) One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer..

Recall :: Recall (n.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc..

Remembrancer :: Remembrancer (n.) A term applied in England to several officers, having various functions, their duty originally being to bring certain matters to the attention of the proper persons at the proper time..

Formal :: Formal (a.) Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc..

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life..

Wanderer :: Wanderer (n.) One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty..

Desertion :: Desertion (n.) The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service..

Percentage :: Percentage (n.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred..

Illuminate :: Illuminate (v. t.) To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty..

Emeritus :: Emeritus (a.) Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church..

Crime :: Crime (n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law..

Lookout :: Lookout (n.) Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.

Unfaithful :: Unfaithful (a.) Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant..

Respectively :: Respectively (adv.) As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each; as each refers to each in order; as, let each man respectively perform his duty..

Guarantee :: Guarantee (n.) In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who is, in the first instance, liable to such payment or performance; an engagement which secures or insures another against a contingency; a warranty; a security. Same as Guaranty..

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