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In Cryptography teasers, a phrase or expressions has been encoded in some way (frequently by replacing letters with other letters). You need to figure out the encoding method and then decode the message to find the answer.Cryptography
For the task below, use the letters represented by each number on a standard phone. For example, the word "eat" can be represented by the number 328. Given that the following pairs of numbers are antonyms, can you find what the words are?
23537489 & 75696377
2278364687 & 4588866687
23537489 & 75696377
2278364687 & 4588866687
Hint
Ok, I'll give you a couple letters of each word:23537489 = C_L_R_ _Y
75696377 = S_O_N_ _S
2278364687 = A_S_E_ _ _ US
4588866687 = G_U_T_ _ O _S
Answer
23537489 - Celerity, which is a synonym of "swiftness."75696377 - Slowness
2278364687 - Abstemious, which is using or consuming sparingly.
4588866687 - Gluttonous, or taking a pleasure to using, mostly in terms of eating.
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