Kill and Score

Kill

Kill noun - The act of terminating a life.

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Score and kill are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Score" instead the word "Kill" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: killing, killed, killer

Score noun - A lingering ill will towards a person for a real or imagined wrong.

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Kill and score are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Kill" instead the word "Score" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: scored, scoring, scorer, scoreless

good	good kill	good score
high	high kill	high score
low	low kill	low score
special	special kill	special score
Other adjectives: best, perfect, certain, total, original, free, single, actual, successful, bad, dark, decent, personal, final, highest, next, last, higher, recorded, triple, didn't.

Call of Duty: Ghosts is the game in the franchise that started the trend of nerfing kill/score/pointstreaks for future games even though the developers of those games intended these streaks to be weakened so that there would be less offensive streak-spamming and spawn-killing by offensive streaks.

Source: Franchise Original Sin / Video Games
In Gears of War 3, you can play an "Arcade" version of the campaign where your score in recorded in which enemies you kill.

Source: Score Multiplier
The Trainees in question got so many lessons in court fencing that they'd be toast the first time they ever came up against someone who wanted to kill them instead of score points against them.

Source: A Lesson In Defeat

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