Contact and joining
Synonyms for baste
The synonym for baste recorded in this bank is tack, in the sense "sew together loosely, with large stitches". 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 baste
- tackverb, in the sense "sew together loosely, with large stitches"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and baste carries one sense so far.
sew together loosely, with large stitches
Baste a hem.
The true synonym
tack
Same sentence, swapped: Tack a hem.
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 baste in the sentence quoted.
- clobber
- overcast
- pucker
Where baste turns up in the game
baste is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play baste
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so baste 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 contact and joining is the company baste keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. baste carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.