Plan and Rationalize

Plan

Plan verb - To work out the details of (something) in advance.

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Rationalize and plan are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rationalize" instead a verb "Plan".

Nearby Words: plant, planned, planed, planner, planing

Rationalize verb - To give the reason for or cause of.

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Plan and rationalize are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Plan" instead a verb "Rationalize".

action	plan action	rationalize action
prank	plan prank	rationalize prank
death	plan death	rationalize death
murder	plan murder	rationalize murder
Other words: time, way, actions, crime, genocide, events, crimes.

In Runaways, Klara starts off as a fatalist, both because of her strict Calvinist upbringing, and because her life before joining the Runaways is so horrible that the only way she can rationalize it is to assume that it's part of some divine plan.

Source: The Fatalist

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