Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for assay
The synonym for assay recorded in this bank is check, in the sense "an appraisal of the state of affairs". 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 assay
- checknoun, in the sense "an appraisal of the state of affairs"
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 assay is audited in a second meaning.
an appraisal of the state of affairs
They made an assay of the contents.
The true synonym
check
Same sentence, swapped: They made an check of the contents.
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.
- valuation
- reassessment
- whack
Where assay turns up in the game
assay is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 assay is the trap
- valuationnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is evaluation, in the sense "an appraisal of the value of something", and assay is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play assay
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so assay 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 thinking and knowing words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. assay carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.