Contact and joining
Synonyms for adhere
The synonym for adhere recorded in this bank is stick, in the sense "stick to firmly". 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 adhere
- stickverb, in the sense "stick to firmly"
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 adhere is audited in a second meaning.
stick to firmly
Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?
The true synonym
stick
Same sentence, swapped: Will this wallpaper stick to the wall?
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.
- spat
- implant
- converge
Where adhere turns up in the game
adhere 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where adhere is the trap
- cleaveverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is split, in the sense "separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument", with adhere sitting one tile away.
Play adhere
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so adhere 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 contact and joining words at Ridgeline, 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. adhere carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.