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Synonyms for contaminated
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution
Had to boil the contaminated water.
The true synonym
polluted
Same sentence, swapped: Had to boil the polluted water.
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 contaminated as it is used in the sentence above.
- morbid
- diseased
- pathological
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