Social life
Synonyms for attend
Synonyms for attend: see and serve. 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 attend
Interchangeable with attend in this sense
Audited under attend's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one attend carries in that sense.
- seeverb, in the sense "take charge of or deal with"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name attend as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- serveserve is a verb in the sense "work for, or be a servant to"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under attend and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
take charge of or deal with
I must attend to this matter.
The true synonym
see
Same sentence, swapped: I must see to this matter.
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 attend in the sentence quoted.
- assist
- hang
- parent
Where attend turns up in the game
attend 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 five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where attend is the trap
- commenceverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is begin, in the sense "to begin or start", so attend is there to be ruled out.
- headlineverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is lead, in the sense "to be the featured performer at an event", and attend is on the board beside it.
- hostverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is hold, in the sense "to receive and entertain guests at an event", and attend is one of the three tiles that lose.
- serveverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is dish, in the sense "provide (usually but not necessarily food)", so attend is there to be ruled out.
Play attend
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so attend 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 social life words at Foothills, 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. attend carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.