Rationalize
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make something rational To justify an immoral act, or illogical behaviour. “The process of thought by which one justifies a discreditable act, and by which one offers to oneself and the world a better motive for one's action than the true motive” To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation. To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles.
Example sentence: Don't rationalize or internalize abusive behavior, because love doesn't hurt.
Prune
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A plum.The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.An old woman, especially a wrinkly one
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material); as, to prune a budget.
Example sentence: Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.