States and conditions
Synonyms for mastery
Synonyms for mastery: domination and command. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for mastery
Interchangeable with mastery in this sense
Audited under mastery's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one mastery carries in that sense.
- dominationnoun, in the sense "power to dominate or defeat"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name mastery as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- commandcommand is a noun in the sense "great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity"
The first group is filed under mastery's own sense. The second reaches mastery from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
power to dominate or defeat
Mastery of the seas.
The true synonym
domination
Same sentence, swapped: Domination of the seas.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- ascendant
- monopoly
- destruction
Where mastery turns up in the game
mastery is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where mastery is the trap
- smatteringnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is smidgen, in the sense "a small, scattered amount or number of something", with mastery sitting one tile away.
Play mastery
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so mastery reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other states and conditions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. mastery carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.