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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
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extenuate
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synonyms: palliate ???
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Definition:1. to make less thick, to diminish in thickness2. to diminish the importance, fault, or impact of something; to whitewash; to gloss over; weaken
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“It was a small estate that brought in no profit,” replied Prince Andrew, trying to extenuate his action so as not to irritate the old man uselessly.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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The road would be none the smoother for it, the end would be none the better for it, he would not be helped, nor I extenuated.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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