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- rationale
collapse - (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature); "the rationale for capital punishment"; "the principles of internal-combustion engines" related words >
- account,
- allegorization,
- clarification,
- cracking,
- decipherment,
- decoding,
- demonstration,
- demythologization,
- editing,
- elucidation,
- emendation,
- enlightenment,
- euhemerism,
- excuse,
- exegesis,
- exemplification,
- explanation,
- explication,
- exposition,
- expounding,
- grounds,
- illumination,
- illustration,
- justification,
- light,
- logic,
- philosophy,
- pretense,
- pretext,
- principle,
- rational ground,
- rationalization,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- reasoning,
- simplification,
- solution,
- stated cause,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- theory,
- underlying reason,
- unlocking
- accordingly,
- after all,
- after which,
- all things considered,
- argument,
- because of that,
- because of this,
- before the bench,
- before the court,
- ceteris paribus,
- consequently,
- considering,
- ergo,
- everything being equal,
- excuse,
- explanation,
- for that,
- for that cause,
- for that reason,
- for this cause,
- for this reason,
- for which,
- for which reason,
- for why,
- from what cause,
- ground,
- hence,
- hereat,
- hereinafter,
- how come,
- in court,
- on,
- on balance,
- on that account,
- on that ground,
- on the whole,
- on this account,
- on what account,
- pourquoi,
- pretense,
- pretext,
- proof,
- propter hoc,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- stated cause,
- sub judice,
- taking into account,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- then,
- thence,
- thereat,
- therefor,
- therefore,
- this being so,
- thus,
- thusly,
- thuswise,
- underlying reason,
- upon,
- upon which,
- what for,
- whence,
- whereat,
- wherefrom,
- whereon,
- whereto,
- whereunto,
- whereupon,
- wherewith,
- why,
- whyever,
- whyfor
- why
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- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores' related words >
- Chinese puzzle,
- argument,
- baffling problem,
- brain twister,
- conundrum,
- crossword puzzle,
- crux,
- enigma,
- enigmatic question,
- excuse,
- explanation,
- floorer,
- for which,
- for why,
- from what cause,
- ground,
- how come,
- jigsaw puzzle,
- knot,
- knotty point,
- mind-boggler,
- mystery,
- mystification,
- nut to crack,
- on what account,
- perplexed question,
- perplexity,
- poser,
- pourquoi,
- pretense,
- pretext,
- problem,
- proof,
- puzzle,
- puzzlement,
- puzzler,
- question,
- question mark,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- riddle,
- sixty-four dollar question,
- stated cause,
- sticker,
- stumper,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- tough proposition,
- underlying reason,
- vexed question,
- what for,
- wherefore,
- whyever,
- whyfor
- what for
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- a strong reprimand related words >
- ass-reaming,
- bawling-out,
- castigation,
- chastening,
- chastisement,
- chewing,
- condign punishment,
- correction,
- cussing-out,
- deserts,
- disciplinary measures,
- discipline,
- dressing,
- dressing-down,
- excuse,
- explanation,
- ferule,
- for which,
- for why,
- from what cause,
- going-over,
- how come,
- infliction,
- jacking-up,
- judgment,
- judicial punishment,
- nemesis,
- on what account,
- pains,
- pains and punishments,
- pay,
- payment,
- penal retribution,
- penalty,
- penology,
- pourquoi,
- pretense,
- pretext,
- punishment,
- punition,
- raking-down,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- reaming,
- reaming-out,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- retribution,
- retributive justice,
- roasting,
- scourge,
- setdown,
- speaking-to,
- stated cause,
- talking-to,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- underlying reason,
- well-deserved punishment,
- wherefore,
- why,
- whyever,
- whyfor
- pretext
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- something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- alibi,
- allege,
- alternative,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- avow,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- choice,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- cover,
- cover story,
- deception,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- excuse,
- explanation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guise,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- loophole,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- plea,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretend,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- profess,
- protest too much,
- purport,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- rationalization,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- red herring,
- representation,
- right,
- ruse,
- saving clause,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- stated cause,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- underlying reason,
- varnish,
- veil,
- way of escape,
- way out,
- window dressing
- explanation
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- thought that makes something comprehensible
- a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.; "the explanation was very simple"; "I expected a brief account"
- the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible; "I heard his explanation of the accident" related words >
- abstraction,
- accomplishment,
- account,
- allegorization,
- analysis,
- answer,
- ascertainment,
- body of theory,
- case,
- case in point,
- cause,
- clarification,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- clearing up,
- commentary,
- construction,
- cracking,
- criticism,
- decipherment,
- decoding,
- definition,
- delineation,
- demonstration,
- demythologization,
- denouement,
- description,
- destigmatization,
- destigmatizing,
- determination,
- disclosure,
- disentanglement,
- doctrinairism,
- doctrinality,
- doctrinarity,
- editing,
- elucidation,
- emblem,
- emendation,
- end,
- end result,
- enlightenment,
- euhemerism,
- example,
- exculpation,
- excuse,
- exegesis,
- exemplar,
- exemplification,
- explication,
- exponent,
- expose,
- exposition,
- expounding,
- finding,
- finding-out,
- grounds,
- illumination,
- illustration,
- instance,
- interpretation,
- issue,
- justification,
- key,
- light,
- meaning,
- mere theory,
- motive,
- object lesson,
- outcome,
- pretense,
- pretext,
- purgation,
- purging,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- rationalization,
- reason,
- reason why,
- rehabilitation,
- reinstatement,
- relevant instance,
- representative,
- resolution,
- resolving,
- restoration,
- result,
- riddling,
- signification,
- simplification,
- solution,
- solving,
- sorting out,
- speculation,
- stated cause,
- symbol,
- tentative explanation,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- theoretic,
- theoretical basis,
- theoretical structure,
- theoretics,
- theoria,
- theoric,
- theorization,
- theory,
- type,
- typical example,
- underlying reason,
- unified theory,
- unlocking,
- unraveling,
- unriddling,
- unscrambling,
- unspinning,
- untangling,
- untwisting,
- unweaving,
- upshot,
- vindication,
- working,
- working-out
- pretense
collapse
- the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
- imaginative intellectual play
- pretending with intention to deceive related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- air,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- apology,
- appearance,
- appurtenance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- authority,
- birthright,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- charade,
- cheating,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- conjugal right,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deceit,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demand,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due,
- excuse,
- explanation,
- facade,
- face,
- faculty,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guise,
- handle,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- inalienable right,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- lame excuse,
- locus standi,
- loftiness,
- lofty affectations,
- make-believe,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- natural right,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatiousness,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- playacting,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumptive right,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- refuge,
- representation,
- right,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stated cause,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- title,
- trick,
- underlying reason,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- window dressing
- excuse
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- a note explaining an absence; "he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him"
- a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; "he kept finding excuses to stay"; "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable"
- excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities"
- serve as a reason or cause or justification of; "Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"; "Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again"
- grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"
- ask for permission to be released from an engagement
- accept an excuse for; "Please excuse my dirty hands" related words >
- abject apology,
- absolution,
- absolve,
- acknowledgment,
- acquit,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- alibi,
- alibi out of,
- allow,
- amnesty,
- apologize for,
- apology,
- basis,
- be blind to,
- blind,
- breast-beating,
- cause,
- clear,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- cloak,
- color,
- compurgation,
- condonation,
- condone,
- confession,
- contrition,
- cop-out,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover with excuses,
- cover-up,
- decontaminate,
- defence,
- defend,
- defense,
- destigmatization,
- destigmatize,
- destigmatizing,
- device,
- discharge,
- disculpation,
- dismiss,
- dismissal,
- dispense,
- dispense from,
- dispense with,
- disregard,
- escape,
- evasion,
- except,
- exculpate,
- exculpation,
- exempt,
- exempt from,
- exemption,
- exonerate,
- exoneration,
- explain,
- explanation,
- extenuate,
- extenuation,
- facade,
- feint,
- forgive,
- forgiveness,
- foundation,
- free,
- front,
- give absolution,
- give dispensation from,
- gloss,
- gloss over,
- grace,
- grant amnesty to,
- grant forgiveness,
- grant immunity,
- grant remission,
- grounds,
- guise,
- handle,
- heedlessness,
- ignore,
- immunity,
- indemnity,
- indulgence,
- justification,
- justify,
- lame excuse,
- let go,
- let off,
- liberate,
- lie out of,
- likely story,
- locus standi,
- loophole,
- make apology for,
- makeshift,
- mask,
- mea culpa,
- mitigate,
- mitigation,
- nonpros,
- offer excuse for,
- ostensible motive,
- out,
- overlook,
- palliate,
- palliation,
- pardon,
- pass over,
- penitence,
- permit,
- plea,
- plead ignorance,
- poor excuse,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- purgation,
- purge,
- purging,
- put-off,
- quash the charge,
- quietus,
- quittance,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- rationalization,
- rationalize,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- redemption,
- refuge,
- regrets,
- release,
- relieve,
- remise,
- remission,
- remission of sin,
- remit,
- reprieve,
- right,
- save the necessity,
- screen,
- semblance,
- set free,
- sham,
- shift,
- show,
- shrift,
- shrive,
- shrug off,
- smoke screen,
- spare,
- sparing,
- squirm out of,
- stalking-horse,
- stall,
- stated cause,
- stopgap,
- story,
- stratagem,
- substitute,
- subterfuge,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- trick,
- underlying reason,
- varnish,
- veil,
- verdict of acquittal,
- vindicate,
- vindication,
- warrant,
- way out,
- whitewash,
- wink at,
- withdraw the charge,
- worm out of
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