People and roles

Synonyms for automaton

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

Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · noun · Reason line included

The sensenounTier 4, High CampPeople and roles

someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way

Only an automaton wouldn't have noticed.

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

The true synonym

zombie

Same sentence, swapped: Only an zombie wouldn't have noticed.

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 automaton as it is used in the sentence above.

golem
smasher
preserver

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Closest first: other people and roles words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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