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Synonyms for chair

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · noun · Reason line included

The sensenounTier 4, High CampActions

the position of professor

He was awarded an endowed chair in economics.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

professorship

Same sentence, swapped: He was awarded an endowed professorship in economics.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for chair as it is used in the sentence above.

president
throne
plum

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Closest first: other actions words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

deprivationnounprivationact of depriving someone of food or money or rightsHigh CampHas a reason line dispersionnoundiffusionthe act of dispersing or diffusing somethingHigh Camp doubleadjectivetwofoldtwice as great or manyHigh CampHas a reason line drenchingnounsoakingthe act of making something completely wetHigh CampHas a reason line blotnounspotan act that brings discredit to the person who does itRidgeline blownounpuffforceful exhalation through the nose or mouthTreelineHas a reason line bookingnounreservationthe act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)Treeline objectionableadjectiveobnoxiouscausing disapproval or protestHigh Camp

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