| Main Entry: | alibi |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defense against charges of wrongdoing; evidence of absence |
Synonyms: |
account, affirmation, airtight case, allegation, answer, assertion, assurance, avowal, case, cop-out, cover, declaration, excuse, explanation, fish story, justification, plea, pretext, profession, proof, reason, reply, retort, song and dance, stall, statement, vindication |
| Notes: | an alias is an assumed name, an alibi is a form of defense whereby a defendant attempts to prove that he or she was elsewhere when the crime in question was committed, while an excuse is an explanation offered to justify or obtain forgiveness |
| Main Entry: | compromise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, give-and-take |
Synonyms: |
accommodation, accord, adjustment, arrangement, bargain, compact, composition, concession, contract, copout, covenant, deal, fifty-fifty, half and half, half measure, happy medium, mean, middle course, middle ground, pact, sellout, settlement, trade-off, understanding, win-win situation |
Antonyms: |
contest, controversy, difference, disagreement, dispute, dissension, dissent, quarrel |
| Main Entry: | concession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | yielding, adjustment |
Synonyms: |
acknowledgment, admission, allowance, assent, authorization, boon, buyback, compromise, confession, copout, deal, giveback, giving in, grant, indulgence, permission, permit, privilege, rollback, sellout, surrender, trade-off, warrant |
Antonyms: |
denial, difference, disagreement, disputation, fighting, protest, refusal, repudiation |
| Main Entry: | defense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanation, justification |
Synonyms: |
answer, apologetics, apologia, apologizing, apology, argument, cleanup, copout, exculpation, excuse, excusing, exoneration, explaining, extenuation, fish story, jive, off-time, plea, rationalization, rejoinder, reply, response, retort, return, song and dance, story, vindication, whitewash |
Antonyms: |
betrayal, capitulation, yielding |
| Main Entry: | evasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | escape, avoidance |
Synonyms: |
artifice, circumvention, cop-out, cunning, ditch*, dodge*, dodging, elusion, equivocating, equivocation, eschewal, evading, evasiveness, excuse, fancy footwork, fudging, fugiviteness, fugivity, jive, lie, obliqueness, pretext, prevarication, quibble, routine, run-around, ruse, shift, shirking, shuffling, shunning, slip*, sophism, sophistry, stall, stonewall, subterfuge, trick, trickery |
Antonyms: |
directness, facing, meeting |
| Main Entry: | excuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reason, explanation |
Synonyms: |
alibi, apology, cleanup, cop-out, cover story, cover*, coverup, defense, disguise, evasion, expedient, extenuation, fish story, grounds, jive, justification, makeshift, mitigation, plea, pretext, rationalization, regrets, routine, semblance, shift, song and dance, song*, stall, stopgap, story, substitute, subterfuge, trick*, vindication, whitewash, why and wherefore |
| Main Entry: | plea |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excuse, defense |
Synonyms: |
action, alibi, allegation, apology, argument, cause, claim, cop-out, explanation, extenuation, fish tale, justification, mitigation, out, palliation, pleading, pretext, rationalization, right, song and dance, story, vindication, whitewash |
Antonyms: |
decision, sentence |
| Main Entry: | pretext |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disguise; alleged reason |
Synonyms: |
affectation, alibi, appearance, bluff, cleanup, cloak, color*, coloring, cop-out, cover, cover story, cover-up, device, excuse, face, feint, fig leaf, front, guise, mask, masquerade, plea, ploy, pretense, red herring, routine, ruse, semblance, show, simulation, song and dance, stall, stratagem, subterfuge, veil* |
Antonyms: |
reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | defense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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gas, alleged, apagogic, apologetic, armed, armed at all points, armed cap, casemated, castellated, defended, defending, defensive, iron, loopholed, machicolated, magnum, mural, panoplied, proof against, pump, slide, to the teeth
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| Main Entry: | evasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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