Increase and Scale

Increase

Increase verb - To make greater in size, amount, or number.

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Scale and increase are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scale" instead a verb "Increase".

Scale verb - To find out the size, extent, or amount of.

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Increase and scale are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Increase" instead a verb "Scale".

Nearby Words: scaled, scaling, scalable

short	short increase	short scale
average	average increase	average scale
difficulty	difficulty increase	difficulty scale
simple	simple increase	simple scale
Other adjectives: small, actual, massive, large, big, huge, new, major, general, minor, greater, larger, overall, global.

power	increase power	scale power
amount	increase amount	scale amount
chance	increase chance	scale chance
time	increase time	scale time
Other words: size, difficulty, resistance, damage, stats, ratings.

It's a little odd that the IQ scale hasn't been adjusted to account for the general increase in intelligence, as is done in Real Life (on the IQ scale, 100 is the norm).

Source: We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future
Both Manamune and Archangel's Staff require frequent spell casts to increase the amount of mana your Attack Damage and Ability Power respectively scale off of, which is 2% or 3% of your maximum mana.

Source: Video Game / League of Legends
But the effects scale up with Cunning, which a smart Rogue develops to increase their lethality.

Source: Magikarp Power

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