States and conditions
Synonyms for alert
The synonym for alert recorded in this bank is watchful, in the sense "engaged in or accustomed to close observation". 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 alert
- watchfuladjective, in the sense "engaged in or accustomed to close observation"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for alert.
engaged in or accustomed to close observation
Caught by a couple of alert cops.
The true synonym
watchful
Same sentence, swapped: Caught by a couple of watchful cops.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- merry
- clever
- active
Where alert turns up in the game
alert is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 alert
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so alert reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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