Communication
Synonyms for broadcast
The synonym for broadcast recorded in this bank is spread, in the sense "cause to become widely known". 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 broadcast
- spreadverb, in the sense "cause to become widely known"
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 broadcast is audited in a second meaning.
cause to become widely known
Broadcast the news.
The true synonym
spread
Same sentence, swapped: Spread the news.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- send
- hype
- seed
Where broadcast turns up in the game
broadcast 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where broadcast is the trap
- presentationnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is demonstration, in the sense "a show or display", so broadcast is there to be ruled out.
Play broadcast
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so broadcast 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 communication words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The same bank, read from both sides
broadcast 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.