Term: extenuation: a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
Broader: excuse: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Unrelated: economy: frugality in the expenditure of money or resources
Broader: excuse: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Unrelated: gas: a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely
Broader: excuse: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Unrelated: cannibalism: the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
Broader: excuse: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Unrelated: stampede: a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle)
Broader: excuse: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Unrelated: varicella zoster virus: the member of the herpes virus family that is responsible for chickenpox
Broader: excuse: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Unrelated: arrowroot: white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch
Broader: excuse: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Unrelated: chamaeleontidae: Old World chameleons; in some classifications they are considered a superfamily of Sauria
Broader: excuse: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Unrelated: sharp: a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
Broader: excuse: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Unrelated: prototherian: primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea
Broader: excuse: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Unrelated: scissors: a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze