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Synonyms for moderation
The synonym for moderation recorded in this bank is mitigation, in the sense "the action of lessening in severity or intensity". 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 moderation
- mitigationnoun, in the sense "the action of lessening in severity or intensity"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day moderation is audited in a second meaning.
the action of lessening in severity or intensity
The object being control or moderation of economic depressions.
The true synonym
mitigation
Same sentence, swapped: The object being control or mitigation of economic depressions.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- shrinking
- shortening
- depletion
Where moderation turns up in the game
moderation is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where moderation is the trap
- shimmernoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is play, in the sense "a weak and tremulous light", so moderation is there to be ruled out.
- reliefnoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is alleviation, in the sense "the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced", with moderation sitting one tile away.
Play moderation
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so moderation 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 actions words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
moderation is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.