Qualities
Synonyms for wanting
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
inadequate in amount or degree
Tested and found wanting.
The true synonym
lacking
Same sentence, swapped: Tested and found lacking.
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 wanting as it is used in the sentence above.
- eager
- scarce
- lustful
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Closest first: other qualities words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
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