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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imploring |
| Synonyms: | begging, beseeching, desirous, supplicating |
| Main Entry: | plead |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | present a defense |
| Synonyms: | adduce, advocate, allege, answer charges, argue, assert, avouch, cite, cop a plea, declare, give evidence, maintain, plea bargain, present, put forward, respond, use as excuse, vouch |
| Antonyms: | decide, punish, sentence |
| Main Entry: | argument |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | effort to convince; presentation of support |
| Synonyms: | argumentation, assertion, case, claim, contention, debate, defense, discussion, exchange, expostulation, grounds, line of reasoning, logic, plea, pleading, polemic, proof, questioning, reason, reasoning, remonstrance, remonstration |
| 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: | prayer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleading, especially with a deity; |
| Synonyms: | answer adoration, appeal, application, begging, benediction, beseeching, communion, devotion, entreaty, grace, imploration, imploring, imprecation, invocation, litany, orison, petition, plea, pleading, request, request for help, rogation, service, suit, supplication, worship |
| Main Entry: | appealing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | attractive |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, beseeching, cute, emanate, engaging, entrancing, entreating, imploring, lovable, nice, pleading, present, supplicating, tempting |
| Main Entry: | urging |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | persuading |
| Synonyms: | begging, beseeching, coaxing, driving, goad, imploring, insistence, persuasion, pleading |
| Main Entry: | orison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prayer |
| Synonyms: | answer adoration, appeal, application, begging, benediction, beseeching, collect, communion, devotion, entreaty, grace, imploration, imploring, imprecation, invocation, litany, petition, plea, pleading, request, request for help, rogation, service, suit, supplication, worship |
| Main Entry: | allege |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assert; claim |
| Synonyms: | adduce, advance, affirm, asservate, aver, avouch, avow, charge, cite, declare, depose, lay, maintain, offer, plead, present, profess, put forward, recite, recount, state, testify |
| Antonyms: | contradict, deny, disagree, dissent, object, protest, repudiate |
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