Contact and joining

Synonyms for attract

The synonym for attract recorded in this bank is pull, in the sense "direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for attract

pullverb, in the sense "direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and attract carries one sense so far.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineContact and joining

direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes

Her good looks attract the stares of many men.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

pull

Same sentence, swapped: Her good looks pull the stares of many men.

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 attract in the sentence quoted.

repel
cart
twitch

Where attract turns up in the game

attract 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where attract is the trap

wrenchverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is twist, in the sense "twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates", and attract is on the board beside it.
repelverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is drive, in the sense "cause to move back by force or influence", with attract sitting one tile away.

Play attract

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so attract reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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