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Synonyms for appointment
Synonyms for appointment: assignment and date. 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 appointment
Interchangeable with appointment in this sense
Audited under appointment's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one appointment carries in that sense.
- assignmentnoun, in the sense "the act of putting a person into a non-elective position"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name appointment as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- datedate is a noun in the sense "a meeting arranged in advance"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under appointment and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
The appointment had to be approved by the whole committee.
The true synonym
assignment
Same sentence, swapped: The assignment had to be approved by the whole committee.
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 appointment is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- engagement
- fitting
- resolution
Where appointment turns up in the game
appointment 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 appointment is the trap
- datenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is escort, in the sense "a participant in a date", with appointment sitting one tile away.
- engagementnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is involvement, in the sense "the act of sharing in the activities of a group", and appointment is one of the three tiles that lose.
- engagementnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is mesh, in the sense "contact by fitting together", and appointment is one of the three tiles that lose.
- seancenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is sitting, in the sense "a meeting of spiritualists", and appointment is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play appointment
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so appointment 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.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. appointment carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.