Advantage and Motive

Advantage

Advantage noun - The more favorable condition or position in a competition.

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Motive and advantage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Motive" instead a noun "Advantage".

Motive noun - A major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition).

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Advantage and motive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Advantage" instead a noun "Motive".

good	good advantage	good motive
clear	clear advantage	clear motive
particular	particular advantage	particular motive
better	better advantage	better motive
Other adjectives: initial, true, obvious, powerful, actual, real, big, little, potential, main, sexual, important, personal, new, major, chief, political, possible, additional, primary, financial, biggest.

While this looks like an advantage, that just hides a darker motive: it prevents players from discarding the creature cards on purpose so that they can revive them using way cheaper Animate Dead spells.

Source: Obvious Rule Patch / Card Games
In a subversion, it was later discovered that the person behind the guild leader's death had a completely unrelated motive and took advantage of the rare item dispute to avoid suspicion.

Source: Light Novel / Sword Art Online
In a subversion, it was later discovered that the person behind the guild leader's death had a completely unrelated motive, and took advantage of the rare item dispute to avoid suspicion.

Source: Apple of Discord

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