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: There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Pardon
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To forgive.To grant an official pardon for a crime.
Part of speech: interjection
Definition: Often used when someone does not understand what another person says.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Forgiveness for an offence.An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed.
Example sentence: I'm never going to beg for pardon for exercising fundamental rights.