EXCUSES: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for EXCUSES?

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Associations of "Excuses" (30 Words)

alibi	Provide an alibi for. She has an alibi for the whole of yesterday evening.
attest	Give testimony in a court of law. The witnesses must attest and sign the will in the testator s presence.
attributable	(of a work or remark) able to be ascribed to a particular author, artist, or speaker. The collapse of the movement was attributable to a lack of morale.
clarification	The act of removing solid particles from a liquid. The remaining changes are small clarifications.
confirm	Administer the rite of confirmation to. The report confirms that a diet rich in vitamin C can help to prevent cataracts.
develop	Cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development. Well developed breasts.
elucidate	Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear. In what follows I shall try to elucidate what I believe the problems to be.
enlighten	Give (someone) spiritual knowledge or insight. Christopher had not enlightened Francis as to their relationship.
equivocate	Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself. The government have equivocated too often in the past.
equivocation	Intentionally vague or ambiguous. I say this without equivocation.
evasion	The action of evading something. His evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible.
expatiate	Speak or write in detail about. She expatiated on working class novelists.
explanation	Thought that makes something comprehensible. Freud tried to make sex the explanation for everything.
explicate	Analyse and develop (an idea or principle) in detail. These essays seek to explicate and contextualize Kristeva s writings.
explicit	Of a person stating something in an explicit manner. Let me be explicit.
fabrication	The act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery. The story was a complete fabrication.
hydrostatics	The branch of mechanics concerned with the hydrostatic properties of liquids.
interpretation	An explanation or way of explaining. This action is open to a number of interpretations.
justification	The act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning. He made a speech in justification of his career.
justify	Show or prove to be right or reasonable. In most European languages you justify text by adding space between letters and words.
palliation	Easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause.
pretext	An artful or simulated semblance. The rebels had the perfect pretext for making their move.
prevarication	A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
prove	Prove formally demonstrate by a mathematical formal proof. If they are proved guilty we won t trade with them.
rationale	A set of reasons or a logical basis for a course of action or belief. The rationale for capital punishment.
rationalization	The simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation. They justify themselves with ingenious rationalizations.
rationalize	Think rationally; employ logic or reason. We rationalized the factory s production and raised profits.
reason	Decide by reasoning draw or come to a conclusion. There is a close connection between reason and emotion.
validate	Make or declare legally valid. Without Patti to validate my feelings they seemed not to exist.
why	The cause or intention underlying an action or situation especially in the phrase the whys and wherefores. Why don t I give you a lift.