Key and Square

Key

Key verb - To bring to a state free of conflicts, inconsistencies, or differences.

Usage example: her response was perfectly keyed to the situation

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Square and key are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Square" instead a verb "Key".

Nearby Words: keyed, keyboard, keying

Square verb - To be in agreement on every point.

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Key and square are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Key" instead a verb "Square".

old	old key	old square
special	special key	special square
specific	specific key	specific square
public	public key	public square
Other adjectives: certain, appropriate, original, free, light, single, simple, small, real, large, big, dark, main, delete, magic, new, glowing, extra, last, giant, aforementioned.

The televised Zorro with Duncan Regehr twisted this — at the end of one episode, he chained up the alcade in the town square and forced the alcade to swallow the key.

Source: Swallow the Key
A key takes up one square of inventory space, and you're going to collect a lot of them over the course of the game.

Source: Boring But Practical / Videogames
There are some exceptions, such as The World Ends with You, which actually wasn't glossed over.Around the late 1990s and first half of the 2000s, quite a few of Square's key members left.

Source: Creator / Square Enix

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