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n. An ostensible or professed purpose; an excuse.

n. An effort or strategy intended to conceal something.

v. To allege as an excuse.

n. A false, contrived or assumed purpose; a pretense.

v. To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.

n. Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.

n. That which is assumed as a cloak or means of concealment; something under cover of which a true purpose is hidden; an ostensible reason, motive, or occasion; a pretense.

n. Synonyms Pretension, etc. See pretense.

To use as a pretext, or cloak or covering; assume as a means of concealment.

n. an artful or simulated semblance

n. something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

"Valiavichareska said students never planned to disrupt finals, which she called a pretext for ousting the students."

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