Groups and collections
Synonyms for congregate
The synonym for congregate recorded in this bank is gather, in the sense "to gather together as a group in one place". 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 congregate
- gatherverb, in the sense "to gather together as a group in one place"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and congregate carries one sense so far.
to gather together as a group in one place
Worshippers congregate in the chapel every Sunday morning.
The true synonym
gather
Same sentence, swapped: Worshippers gather in the chapel every Sunday morning.
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.
- withdraw
- evacuate
- wander
Where congregate turns up in the game
congregate 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where congregate is the trap
- disperseverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is scatter, in the sense "to break up and move apart in different directions, of a group", and congregate is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play congregate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so congregate 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 groups and collections 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. congregate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.