Movement
Synonyms for commute
The synonym for commute recorded in this bank is travel, in the sense "to travel regularly between home and workplace". 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 commute
- travelverb, in the sense "to travel regularly between home and workplace"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for commute.
to travel regularly between home and workplace
Thousands of people commute into the city every weekday morning.
The true synonym
travel
Same sentence, swapped: Thousands of people travel into the city every weekday morning.
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 commute is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- resign
- relax
- graduate
Where commute turns up in the game
commute 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where commute is the trap
- relocateverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is resettle, in the sense "to move to a new place to live or operate", with commute sitting one tile away.
- swellverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is burgeon, in the sense "to increase noticeably in size or number", so commute is there to be ruled out.
- cavortverb, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is disport, in the sense "to move or behave in a lively, playful, and boisterous way, especially in a group", so commute is there to be ruled out.
Play commute
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so commute 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 movement words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. commute carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.