| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. That which confirms: attestation, authentication, confirmation, corroboration, demonstration, evidence, substantiation, testament, testimonial, testimony, validation, verification, warrant. See TRUE. 2. A fact or circumstance that gives logical support to an assertion, claim, or proposal: argument, ground (often used in plural), reason, wherefore, why. Idioms: why and wherefore. See REASON. 3. A procedure that ascertains effectiveness, value, proper function, or other quality: assay, essay, test, trial, tryout. See INVESTIGATE. | | ADJECTIVE: | Having the capacity to withstand: immune, impervious, insusceptible, resistant, resistive, unsusceptible. See RESIST.
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