Social life

Synonyms for clique

The synonym for clique recorded in this bank is gang, in the sense "a small, exclusive group of people who spend time together and shut others out". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The synonym for clique

gangnoun, in the sense "a small, exclusive group of people who spend time together and shut others out"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and clique carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsSocial life

a small, exclusive group of people who spend time together and shut others out.

The lunchroom clique never let anyone new sit at their table.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

gang

Same sentence, swapped: The lunchroom gang never let anyone new sit at their table.

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 clique in the sentence quoted.

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audience
delegation

Where clique turns up in the game

clique is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 clique

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so clique 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 social life words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. clique carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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