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Synonyms for mercy
The synonym for mercy recorded in this bank is clemency, in the sense "leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for mercy
- clemencynoun, in the sense "leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for mercy.
leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice
He threw himself on the mercy of the court.
The true synonym
clemency
Same sentence, swapped: He threw himself on the clemency of the court.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where mercy stands in the sentence above.
- benefit
- blessing
- service
Where mercy turns up in the game
mercy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play mercy
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so mercy reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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