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Synonyms for adjourn

The synonym for adjourn recorded in this bank is suspend, in the sense "to suspend proceedings temporarily to resume later". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 3 puzzles

The synonym for adjourn

suspendverb, in the sense "to suspend proceedings temporarily to resume later"

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 adjourn is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineTime

to suspend proceedings temporarily to resume later

The judge decided to adjourn the hearing until Monday.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

suspend

Same sentence, swapped: The judge decided to suspend the hearing until Monday.

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 adjourn is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

dismiss
overturn
indict

Where adjourn turns up in the game

adjourn is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 adjourn is the trap

commenceverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is begin, in the sense "to begin or start", and adjourn is one of the three tiles that lose.
conveneverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is assemble, in the sense "to come together, or bring people together, for a formal meeting", so adjourn is there to be ruled out.
founderverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is miscarry, in the sense "to fail completely or collapse, especially after struggling", and adjourn is on the board beside it.

Play adjourn

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so adjourn 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 time words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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