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Usage

• extenuate

  If there are extenuating circumstances in a questionable situation, you feel that it was reasonable for someone to break the usual rules; therefore, you partly excuse and sympathize with their wrongdoing.

• attenuate

  When something attenuates, it lessens in size or intensity; it becomes thin or weakened.

• tenuous

  Something tenuous is thin, weak, and unconvincing.