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Synonyms for approach
Synonyms for approach: coming, access and attack. 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 3 synonyms for approach
Interchangeable with approach in this sense
Audited under approach's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one approach carries in that sense.
- comingnoun, in the sense "the act of drawing spatially closer to something"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name approach as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under approach's own sense. The second reach approach from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
The hunter's approach scattered the geese.
The true synonym
coming
Same sentence, swapped: The hunter's coming scattered the geese.
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.
- attack
- overture
- progress
Where approach turns up in the game
approach 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 seven other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 7 puzzles where approach is the trap
- advancenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is rise, in the sense "increase in price or value", and approach is one of the three tiles that lose.
- attacknoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is fire, in the sense "intense adverse criticism", and approach is on the board beside it.
- attitudenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is position, in the sense "the arrangement of the body and its limbs", and approach is one of the three tiles that lose.
- coastnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is slide, in the sense "the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it", and approach is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play approach
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so approach 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 actions is the company approach keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. approach carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.