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Synonyms for agency
The synonym for agency recorded in this bank is way, in the sense "to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end". 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 agency
- waynoun, in the sense "to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for agency.
to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
An example is the best agency of instruction.
The true synonym
way
Same sentence, swapped: An example is the best way of instruction.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for agency in the sentence quoted.
- authority
- representation
- instrumentation
Where agency turns up in the game
agency 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where agency is the trap
- meansnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is substance, in the sense "considerable capital (wealth or income)", with agency sitting one tile away.
- authoritynoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is dominance, in the sense "the power or right to give orders or make decisions", and agency is one of the three tiles that lose.
- authoritynoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is sanction, in the sense "official permission or approval", and agency is one of the three tiles that lose.
- practicenoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is praxis, in the sense "translating an idea into action", and agency is on the board beside it.
Play agency
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so agency reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from actions at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. agency carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.