Grounds and Soil

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

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Soil is a synonym for grounds. In some cases you can use "Soil" instead a noun "Grounds".

Soil noun - Foul matter that mars the purity or cleanliness of something.

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Grounds is a synonym for soil. Sometimes you can use "Grounds" instead a noun "Soil".

Nearby Words: soiled, soiling, soilage, soilless

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
Declaring its existence after the revelations about the missiles would make it look like they were lying (in addition to not having had legal grounds for moving Soviet war material onto Cuban soil because they hadn't had an alliance), so they never ended up revealing it.

Source: Useful Notes / History Of The Cold War

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