Device
Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Usage example: used every device and stratagem he knew to prevent his son's marriage
Jig
Jig noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Usage example: okay, buster, the jig is up
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Jig is otherwise an ordinary human teenager with no combat skills whatsoever, but as this device is a Morph Weapon with seemingly no upper limit to what it can take and functions totally independently of Jig's actions, the device effectively renders Jig invulnerable.
Source: Powers Do the Fighting -
Jig, the protagonist of Stealth Symphony, has a device fused to his back that can detect hostility directed at him, defends Jig from any harm that comes from this hostility, and redirect it back in the same direction.
Source: Powers Do the Fighting
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