People and roles
Synonyms for aide
The synonym for aide recorded in this bank is factotum, in the sense "a person who assists another, especially in an official capacity". 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 aide
- factotumnoun, in the sense "a person who assists another, especially in an official capacity"
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 aide is audited in a second meaning.
a person who assists another, especially in an official capacity
The senator's longtime aide handled all the scheduling and correspondence.
The true synonym
factotum
Same sentence, swapped: The senator's longtime factotum handled all the scheduling and correspondence.
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.
- successor
- rival
- donor
Where aide turns up in the game
aide is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play aide
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so aide 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 people and roles at Summit outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. aide carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.