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Synonyms for former
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
belonging to some prior time
Our former glory.
The true synonym
old
Same sentence, swapped: Our old glory.
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 former as it is used in the sentence above.
- prime
- senior
- elder
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