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Synonyms for advance
Synonyms for advance: rise, beforehand, boost and progress. 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 4 synonyms for advance
Interchangeable with advance, one per sense
Audited under advance's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one advance carries in that sense.
- risenoun, in the sense "increase in price or value"
- beforehandadjective, in the sense "being ahead of time or need"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name advance as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
two of these come from advance's own entries in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
increase in price or value
The news caused a general advance on the stock market.
advance in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The broker attributed the sharp advance in oil prices to the pipeline shutdown announced that morning.
- Coffee futures posted their biggest advance in three years after the frost damaged crops in Brazil.
How it behaves: As a noun in this sense, advance usually pairs with the prepositions in or on and takes a qualifying adjective such as sharp, modest, or general, chiefly in financial or journalistic writing.
The true synonym
rise
Same sentence, swapped: The news caused a general rise on the stock market.
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 advance is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- approach
- split
- exaggeration
Opposites, in this sense
decline, drop and fall reverse advance as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of advance takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- decline
- drop
- fall
being ahead of time or need
Gave advance warning.
The true synonym
beforehand
Same sentence, swapped: Gave beforehand warning.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- rolling
- current
- passing
Where advance turns up in the game
advance is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in six other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 6 puzzles where advance is the trap
- ghostnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is touch, in the sense "a suggestion of some quality", so advance is there to be ruled out.
- encounternoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is meeting, in the sense "a casual or unexpected convergence", with advance sitting one tile away.
- mountnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is setting, in the sense "a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place", with advance sitting one tile away.
- rollingadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is rolled, in the sense "uttered with a trill", with advance sitting one tile away.
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The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so advance reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. advance carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.