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pre·text    Audio Help   (prē'těkst')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. An ostensible or professed purpose; an excuse.
  2. An effort or strategy intended to conceal something.

tr.v.   pre·text·ed, pre·text·ing, pre·texts
To allege as an excuse.


[Latin praetextum, from neuter past participle of praetexere, to disguise : prae-, pre- + texere, to weave; see teks- in Indo-European roots.]

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