Qualities
Synonyms for stain
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
a soiled or discolored appearance
The wine left a dark stain.
The true synonym
discoloration
Same sentence, swapped: The wine left a dark discoloration.
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 stain as it is used in the sentence above.
- grease
- perspective
- phase
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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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