| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. That which provides a reason or justification: call, cause, ground (often used in plural), justification, occasion, reason, wherefore, why. Idioms: why and wherefore. See START. 2. Something indispensable: condition, essential, must, need, precondition, prerequisite, requirement, requisite, sine qua non. See NECESSARY. 3. A condition in which something necessary or desirable is required or wanted: exigence, exigency, need. See NECESSARY.
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