blame, fault

rationalize, substantiate, equate, buttress, dissuade, legitimize, negate, explain, fathom, resist, vindicate, gainsay, undercut, restrain, sustain, discourage, argue, obviate, imply, preclude, undermine, refute, conceal, deny, legitimatize, disprove, excuse, convince, impute, deter, forestall, prove, counteract, condemn, quash, discredit, absolve, mean, perpetuate, constrain, controvert, prevent, satisfy, infer, appease, necessitate, compel, exculpate, suppress, warranted, inculpate, quell, placate, insulate, analogize, oppose, comprehend, provoke, validate, ascribe, unhorse, defend, underline, shoehorn, insinuate, conflate, coerce, cite, denounce, nullify, circumvent, consider, assuage, invalidate, recoup, condoning, begrudge, criticize, contradict, merit, decry, obfuscate, bolster, compensate, stop, curtail, downplay, overemphasise, predicating, correlate, mislead, objecting, particularize, preempt, publicize, persuade, underscore, rebut, delude, squelch, tu quoque, protracts, curve, ef, ics, margins, activations, affluents, afterload, alt, amputation, angle, arterial, ascending, associativity, astrocytoma, asymptote, aud, auditory, basal, bracket, brackets

color, excuse, exempt, explain, extenuate, gloss, let off, mitigate, palliate, plead, relieve

apologist, augsburg confession, case in point, casus belli, defensive, end, grievance, grudge, justificative, justificatory, justifier, precedent, revisionist, score, vindicator, worthwhile

adjust, confirm, defend, fend for, forgive, maintain, reassert, set, support, uphold

absolve, apologise, apologize, excuse, free, rationalize, vindicate, warrant