Grounds and Response

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Grounds noun - Your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief.

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Response and grounds are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Response" instead a noun "Grounds".

Response noun - Action or behavior that is done in return to other action or behavior.

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Grounds and response are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Grounds" instead a noun "Response".

Nearby Words: responsive, responsible, respond

Although at the time Thor was acting on what he believed was his royal duty in response to the earlier breach by the Jotuns on Asgardian soil on his coronation day (so it's still grounds for war, just with Asgard being the one to declare it instead of Jotunheim).

Source: Film / Thor
When the security chief objects on the grounds that several of their own mooks are also in the lobby, Wesker's response is to shoot the security chief in the head at point blank range.

Source: Film / Resident Evil: Afterlife
When he's told to free her by X-Factor, his first response is to refuse on the grounds that it took him forever to capture 'it'.

Source: Comic Book / X-Factor

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