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Synonyms for acquiring
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
the act of acquiring something
I envied his talent for acquiring.
The true synonym
getting
Same sentence, swapped: I envied his talent for getting.
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 acquiring as it is used in the sentence above.
- retrieval
- proclamation
- uncovering
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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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