Merit and Score

Merit

Merit verb - To be or make worthy of (as a reward or punishment).

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Score and merit are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Score" instead a verb "Merit".

Nearby Words: merited, meriting

Score verb - To mark with or as if with a line or groove.

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Merit and score are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Merit" instead a verb "Score".

Nearby Words: scored, scoring, scorer, scoreless

musical	musical merit	musical score
special	special merit	special score
exact	exact merit	exact score
particular	particular merit	particular score
Other adjectives: perfect, standard, single, actual, great, huge, bad, personal, new, possible, final, overall.

Stealth Run: Achieving one in a mission grants more merit points at the score screen of the mission in Men of Courage.

Source: Video Game / Commandos
This means that a score doesn't have to be legible, but after the game it must cumulatively measure the exact merit of a current playstyle - with sports-like precision of fractions of a percent.

Source: Pinball Scoring
It is possible to win on merit, but if they do, they're not out of the woods yet; the devils trying to keep the defendant's soul will bring up unrelated charges of evil or law and, if their score on either value is 9 or higher, the damned soul will be condemned anyway.

Source: Moving the Goalposts

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