Rating | Solver | Clue |
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MITIGATION | Extenuation | |
EXCUSER | One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. | |
EXCUSE | The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation. | |
PALLIATION | The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices. |