Approve and Justify

Approve

Approve verb - To give official acceptance of as satisfactory.

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Justify and approve are semantically related in guarantee topic. In some cases you can use "Justify" instead a verb "Approve", when it comes to topics like confirm.

Nearby Words: approval, approbation, approving, approvingly, approvement

Justify

Justify verb - To be an acceptable reason for.

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Approve and justify are semantically related in guarantee topic. Sometimes you can use "Approve" instead a verb "Justify", if it concerns topics such as explain, legitimize.

Nearby Words: justification, justifiable, justified, justifying

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violence	approve violence	justify violence
action	approve action	justify action
change	approve change	justify change
idea	approve idea	justify idea
Other words: name, relationship, presence, means, time, use, act, characters, rule, law, release, acts.

Both words in one sentence

Of course, Roseanne was largely using this to justify her not telling Jackie's fiance she was in labor, since she didn't approve of him, which came back to bite her when Jackie went into early labor (not sudden, but gradual), and she had to scramble to find him.

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