Rate and Touchstone

Rate

Rate noun - Degree of excellence.

Usage example: not being of the first rate, these apples are usually sold as food for livestock

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Touchstone and rate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Touchstone" instead a noun "Rate".

Nearby Words: rated, rateable, rater

Touchstone noun - Something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared.

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Rate and touchstone are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rate" instead a noun "Touchstone".

good rate

good touchstone

The worst, she claimed, was "Ichor", the 'infallible touchstone of the 7th rate'.

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