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noun

• a proposal for an appropriate course of action

28%7 Account for one's involvement in abandoned scheme
verb

• make plain and comprehensible

• define

• serve as a reason or cause or justification of

25%13 Evolutionary stage of English between Old English and Early Modern English
noun

• English from about 1100 to 1450

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