Contact and joining
Synonyms for buff
The synonym for buff recorded in this bank is burnish, in the sense "polish and make shiny". 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 buff
- burnishverb, in the sense "polish and make shiny"
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 buff is audited in a second meaning.
polish and make shiny
Buff my shoes.
The true synonym
burnish
Same sentence, swapped: Burnish my shoes.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- hound
- advocate
- crank
Where buff turns up in the game
buff is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 buff is the trap
- attendantadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is collateral, in the sense "occurring with or following as a consequence", and buff is on the board beside it.
- amateuradjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is unpaid, in the sense "engaged in as a pastime", and buff is on the board beside it.
Play buff
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so buff 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 contact and joining words at Summit, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
buff is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.