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Synonyms for desperately
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
with great urgency
The soil desperately needed potash.
The true synonym
urgently
Same sentence, swapped: The soil urgently needed potash.
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 desperately as it is used in the sentence above.
- madly
- wildly
- violently
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