Groups and collections
Synonyms for committee
The synonym for committee recorded in this bank is board, in the sense "a small group of people appointed to consider or decide on a particular matter". 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 committee
- boardnoun, in the sense "a small group of people appointed to consider or decide on a particular matter"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for committee.
a small group of people appointed to consider or decide on a particular matter
The committee reviewed forty applications before choosing a winner.
The true synonym
board
Same sentence, swapped: The board reviewed forty applications before choosing a winner.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot committee is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- crowd
- congregation
- audience
Where committee turns up in the game
committee is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in seven other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 7 puzzles where committee is the trap
- choirnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is chorus, in the sense "an organized group of singers who perform together", and committee is on the board beside it.
- cliquenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is gang, in the sense "a small, exclusive group of people who spend time together and shut others out", and committee is one of the three tiles that lose.
- cohortnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is circle, in the sense "a group of companions or peers who are associated with each other", and committee is on the board beside it.
- communitynoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is public, in the sense "the people living in a particular area, considered as a group", and committee is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play committee
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so committee 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 groups and collections is the company committee keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. committee carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.