Contact and joining
Synonyms for clench
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
hold in a tight grasp
Clench a steering wheel.
The true synonym
clinch
Same sentence, swapped: Clinch a steering wheel.
Close but different
These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for clench as it is used in the sentence above.
- apprehend
- nab
- snatch
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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
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