• to bespeak, bespoke, bespoken, to betoken
• to flop, to fuck up, to lose out
• it's unlike him to do sg
• to hedge, to play fast and loose
• to depose, to kiss the book, to swear to
• this points to the fact that
• he is extreme in his views, to hold extreme opinions
• to grill, to interrogate
• confession, deposition, statement