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Synonyms for commence
The synonym for commence recorded in this bank is begin, in the sense "to begin or start". 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 commence
- beginverb, in the sense "to begin or start"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for commence.
to begin or start
The ceremony will commence at noon sharp.
The true synonym
begin
Same sentence, swapped: The ceremony will begin at noon sharp.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- resume
- adjourn
- attend
Where commence turns up in the game
commence 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 commence
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so commence 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 events is the company commence keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. commence carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.