Qualities

Synonyms for pliable

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampQualities

capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out

They soaked the leather to make it pliable.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

malleable

Same sentence, swapped: They soaked the leather to make it malleable.

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 pliable as it is used in the sentence above.

spineless
frail
feeble

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