People and roles
Synonyms for auxiliary
The synonym for auxiliary recorded in this bank is supplemental, in the sense "functioning in a supporting capacity". 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 auxiliary
- supplementaladjective, in the sense "functioning in a supporting capacity"
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 auxiliary is audited in a second meaning.
functioning in a supporting capacity
The main library and its auxiliary branches.
The true synonym
supplemental
Same sentence, swapped: The main library and its supplemental branches.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where auxiliary stands in the sentence above.
- surplus
- circumstantial
- transitive
Where auxiliary turns up in the game
auxiliary is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 auxiliary is the trap
- mannequinnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is model, in the sense "a woman who wears clothes to display fashions", and auxiliary is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play auxiliary
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so auxiliary 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 people and roles at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
One vocabulary, two jobs
auxiliary is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.