States and conditions

Synonyms for terminate

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

Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb · Reason line included

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineStates and conditions

have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense

The bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed.

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

The true synonym

stop

Same sentence, swapped: The bronchioles stop in a capillary bed.

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 terminate as it is used in the sentence above.

dismiss
begin
differ

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