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Synonyms for exhausting
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
having a debilitating effect
An exhausting job in the hot sun.
The true synonym
draining
Same sentence, swapped: An draining job in the hot sun.
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 exhausting as it is used in the sentence above.
- harsh
- oppressive
- weighty
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Closest first: other words at Ridgeline, then their alphabetical neighbours.
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