Communication
Synonyms for announcement
The synonym for announcement recorded in this bank is declaration, in the sense "a formal public statement". 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 announcement
- declarationnoun, in the sense "a formal public statement"
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 announcement is audited in a second meaning.
a formal public statement
The government made an announcement about changes in the drug war.
The true synonym
declaration
Same sentence, swapped: The government made an declaration about changes in the drug war.
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 announcement in the sentence quoted.
- formula
- bid
- publicity
Where announcement turns up in the game
announcement 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where announcement is the trap
- schemenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is ruse, in the sense "a secret or underhanded plan to achieve something", and announcement is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play announcement
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so announcement reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other communication words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. announcement carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.