Communication
Synonyms for accession
Synonyms for accession: assenting and addition. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for accession
Interchangeable with accession in this sense
Audited under accession's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one accession carries in that sense.
- assentingnoun, in the sense "agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name accession as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- additionaddition is a noun in the sense "something added to what you already have"
one of these comes from accession's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)
Accession to such demands would set a dangerous precedent.
The true synonym
assenting
Same sentence, swapped: Assenting to such demands would set a dangerous precedent.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot accession is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- admittance
- addition
- ratification
Where accession turns up in the game
accession is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where accession is the trap
- ratificationnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is confirmation, in the sense "making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it", so accession is there to be ruled out.
- additionnoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is improver, in the sense "a component that is added to something to improve it", and accession is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play accession
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so accession reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other communication words at Summit, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. accession carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.