Qualities
Synonyms for smudge
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
a blemish made by dirt
He had a smudge on his cheek.
The true synonym
spot
Same sentence, swapped: He had a spot on his cheek.
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 smudge as it is used in the sentence above.
- wart
- gouge
- reek
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Closest first: other qualities words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
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