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Synonyms for adapt
Synonyms for adapt: accommodate and adjust. 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 adapt
Interchangeable with adapt in this sense
Audited under adapt's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one adapt carries in that sense.
- accommodateverb, in the sense "make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name adapt as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- adjustadjust is a verb in the sense "adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions"
The first group is filed under adapt's own sense. The second reaches adapt from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country.
The true synonym
accommodate
Same sentence, swapped: Accommodate our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country.
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 adapt is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- lighten
- lace
- instrument
Where adapt turns up in the game
adapt is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 adapt is the trap
- fleeverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is escape, in the sense "to run away from danger or threat", and adapt is one of the three tiles that lose.
- accommodateverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is hold, in the sense "have room for", so adapt is there to be ruled out.
Play adapt
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so adapt 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 change words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. adapt carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.