Contact and joining
Synonyms for anchor
Synonyms for anchor: ground and keystone. 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 2 synonyms for anchor
Interchangeable with anchor in this sense
Audited under anchor's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one anchor carries in that sense.
- groundverb, in the sense "fix firmly and stably"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name anchor as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- keystonekeystone is a noun in the sense "a central cohesive source of support and stability"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under anchor and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
fix firmly and stably
Anchor the lamppost in concrete.
The true synonym
ground
Same sentence, swapped: Ground the lamppost in concrete.
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 anchor is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- zip
- rig
- dock
Where anchor turns up in the game
anchor 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where anchor is the trap
- hoistverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is heave, in the sense "to raise something heavy, often using effort or a mechanism", and anchor is one of the three tiles that lose.
- voyagenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is passage, in the sense "a long journey, especially by sea", and anchor is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play anchor
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so anchor reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because contact and joining is the company anchor keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. anchor carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.