Excuse
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgement.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To forgive; to pardon. To allow to leave. To provide an excuse for; to explain, with the aim of alleviating guilt or negative judgement.
Example sentence: Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
Explain
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To give a sufficiently detailed report about (a) the reason for something, about why something happened, about a causal chain of events; about (b) how something works, about how elements in a system interact; about (c) how to do something, about the steps which need to be accomplished in order to accomplish a certain goal.To give a valid excuse for some past behavior.To make flat, smooth out.To unfold or make visible.
Example sentence: If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.