Reasons and explanations
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The SMART Vocabulary cloud shows the related words and phrases you can find in the Cambridge Dictionary that make up this topic. Click on a word to go to the definition.
- alibi
- amplification
- apology
- argument
- argumentation
- ascribesomethingtosomething
- ascription
- ascriptive
- case
- culprit
- definition
- disquisition
- excuse
- explain
- explainsomethingaway
- explanation
- explication
- exposition
- extenuating
- extenuation
- flack
- gloss
- guide
- idea
- key
- mitigation
- out
- rationalization
- reason
- scholium
- superflack
- talk
- talk your way out ofsomethingidiom
- warrant
- well
- wherefores
- why