ex-planation [ek-spluh-ney-shuhn]
Main Entry:
account [uh-kount]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: written description of past events
Synonyms: ABCs, annal, blow by blow, bulletin, chronicle, detail, explanation, history, lowdown, make*, narration, narrative, play by play, recital, report, run-down, score, story, tab, take, tale, the picture, the whole picture, version
Main Entry: annotation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: explanatory note
Synonyms: comment, commentary, definition, elucidation, exegesis, explanation, explication, footnote, gloss, glossary, illustration, interpretation, note, observation
Antonyms: blank
Main Entry: answer
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: reply; reaction
Synonyms: acknowledgment, antiphon, back talk, backcap, band-aid, close, comeback, comment, cooler, counterclaim, crack, defense, disclosure, echo, elucidation, explanation, feedback, guff, interpretation, justification, key, lip, observation, parting shot, pay dirt, plea, quick fix, rebuttal, refutation, rejoinder, remark, repartee, report, resolution, response, result, retort, return, rhetorical question, riposte, sign, solution, statement, thank-you note, the ticket, topper, vindication, wisecrack
Antonyms: question
Main Entry: apology
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: offering of remorse, regret
Synonyms: acknowledgment, admission, amends, atonement, concession, confession, defense, excuse, explanation, extenuation, justification, mea culpa, mitigation, plea, redress, reparation, vindication
Antonyms: accusation, censure, charge, complaint, condemnation, criticism, defiance, indictment
Main Entry: basis
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: foundation for belief, action
Synonyms: antecedent, assumption, authority, axiom, backbone, background, backing, base, bedrock, cause, center, chief ingredient, core, crux, data, dictum, essence, essential, evidence, explanation, footing, fundamental, hard fact, heart, infrastructure, justification, keynote, keystone, law, nexus, nucleus, postulate, premise, presumption, presupposition, principal element, principle, proof, reason, root, rudiment, sanction, security, source, substratum, support, theorem, theory, underpinning, warrant
Main Entry: caption
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: heading; short description
Synonyms: explanation, head, inscription, legend, rubric, subtitle, title, underline
Main Entry: cause
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: agent, originator
Synonyms: account, agency, aim, antecedent, author, basis, beginning, causation, consideration, creator, determinant, doer, element, end, explanation, foundation, genesis, ground, grounds, incitement, inducement, instigation, leaven, mainspring, maker, matter, motivation, motive, object, occasion, origin, prime mover, principle, producer, purpose, root, source, spring, stimulation
Antonyms: consequence, development, effect, end, fruit, issue, outcome, outgrowth, product, result
Main Entry: commentary
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: analysis
Synonyms: annotation, appreciation, comment, consideration, criticism, critique, description, discourse, exegesis, explanation, exposition, gloss, narration, notes, obiter dictum, observation, remark, review, treatise, voice-over
Main Entry: conception
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: understanding; idea
Synonyms: apperception, appreciation, apprehension, clue, cogitating, cognition, communing, comprehension, conceit, concentrating, concept, consideration, considering, deliberating, design, dreaming, envisaging, explanation, exposition, fancy, fancying, image, imagining, impression, inkling, intellection, interpretation, meditating, meditation, mental grasp, musing, notion, perception, philosophizing, picture, plan, realization, representation, speculating, speculation, thought, version
Antonyms: being, concrete
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