Qualities

Synonyms for deficit

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

Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineQualities

the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

The clinic worked to make up the nutritional deficit.

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

The true synonym

shortage

Same sentence, swapped: The clinic worked to make up the nutritional shortage.

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 deficit as it is used in the sentence above.

remainder
surplus
discrepancy

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Closest first: other qualities words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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