People and roles
Synonyms for acquaintance
The synonym for acquaintance recorded in this bank is contact, in the sense "a person one knows slightly but who is not a close friend". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for acquaintance
- contactnoun, in the sense "a person one knows slightly but who is not a close friend"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day acquaintance is audited in a second meaning.
a person one knows slightly but who is not a close friend
He's just an acquaintance from work, not a close friend.
The true synonym
contact
Same sentence, swapped: He's just an contact from work, not a close friend.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- stranger
- relative
- rival
Where acquaintance turns up in the game
acquaintance is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where acquaintance is the trap
- considerationnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is condition, in the sense "information that should be kept in mind when making a decision", with acquaintance sitting one tile away.
- pickupnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is getaway, in the sense "the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration", so acquaintance is there to be ruled out.
- confidantnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is intimate, in the sense "a person entrusted with private thoughts or secrets", with acquaintance sitting one tile away.
Play acquaintance
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so acquaintance reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
Free with ads on iPhone. Synonym Stack Plus removes them: $2.99 a week, $5.99 a month or $49.99 a year, with a 7 day free trial on the monthly and annual plans.
Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because people and roles is the company acquaintance keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. acquaintance carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.