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Deposit :: Deposit (v. t.) Money lodged with a party as earnest or security for the performance of a duty assumed by the person depositing.

Pray :: Pray (v. t.) To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.

Earnest :: Earnest (n.) Something given, or a part paid beforehand, as a pledge; pledge; handsel; a token of what is to come..

Sprightless :: Sprightful (a.) Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay.

Pensive :: Pensive (a.) Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing..

Good :: Good (superl.) Real; actual; serious; as in the phrases in good earnest; in good sooth.

Expostulate :: Expostulate (v. i.) To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with..

Clamant :: Clamant (a.) Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously..

Forswear :: Forswear (v. i.) To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations..

Supplication :: Supplication (n.) A humble petition; an earnest request; an entreaty.

Apprecation :: Apprecation (n.) Earnest prayer; devout wish.

Expostulation :: Expostulation (n.) The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion.

Imprest :: Imprest (v. t.) A kind of earnest money; loan; -- specifically, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment..

Opportunity :: Opportunity (n.) Importunity; earnestness.

Forerun :: Forerun (v. t.) To come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce.

Desire :: Desire (v. t.) To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

Great :: Great (superl.) Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as, a great argument, truth, or principle..

Longing :: Longing (n.) An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.

Serious :: Serious (a.) Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.

Fervor :: Fervor (n.) Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness.

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