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Synonyms for abandonment

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

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

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineActions

withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility

His abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless.

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

The true synonym

desertion

Same sentence, swapped: His desertion of his wife and children left them penniless.

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 abandonment as it is used in the sentence above.

  • receding
  • recession
  • evacuation
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Closest first: other actions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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