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tente; compact, formal agreement, contract, inden ture, covenant, bond; treaty, alliance, pact, convention; mutual understanding, accord, accordance, concord, concordance, concurrence.

4. happy medium, golden mean, Fr. juste-milieu, Latin, aurea mediocritas; balance, mean, middle ground, middle of the road; moderation, temperance, reasonableness; mediocrity, half measures.

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5. settle, agree, compose, come to terms, come to an understanding, make the best of; arrange, make a deal, meet halfway, give and take, Inf. go fifty-fifty, bridge over; reciprocate, exchange, trade, trade off; concede, yield, adjust, modify, accommodate; arbitrate, negotiate, mediate.

6. rectify, square, set right, redress, mend, patch; appease, pacify, placate; compensate, indemnify, satisfy, make amends, atone; (all usu. of prison sentences or otherpenalites) commute, Law. compound, extenuate, alleviate, abate; reconcile, conciliate, propitiate; make peace, make up, come to terms, harmonize.

7. find a happy medium, strike a balance or mean, find the middle ground, steer a middle course, maintain a middle position; be noncommital, straddle, Inf. sit on the fence, serve two masters; (of principles, ideals, etc.) Sl. cop out, Inf. waffle, Inf. hedge, equivocate.

8. jeopardize, imperil, endanger; expose, lay open, risk, hazard; discredit, disparage, embarrass; implicate, involve unfavorably.