Social life
Synonyms for continue
Synonyms for continue: keep and preserve. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for continue
- keepverb, in the sense "allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature"
- preserveverb, in the sense "keep or maintain in unaltered condition"
Two senses of continue, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
We cannot continue several servants any longer.
continue in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The firm decided to continue two clerks on the payroll despite the cutbacks.
- The landlord agreed to continue the reduced rent for another year.
How it behaves: In this sense continue takes a direct object naming a person, benefit, or arrangement being retained, and appears in formal or administrative registers, often after modals like 'cannot' or 'will'.
The true synonym
keep
Same sentence, swapped: We cannot keep several servants any longer.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- fly
- join
- table
Opposites, in this sense
discontinue, dismiss and drop reverse continue as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of continue takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- discontinue
- dismiss
- drop
keep or maintain in unaltered condition
Continue the family tradition.
The true synonym
preserve
Same sentence, swapped: Preserve the family tradition.
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 continue is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- cover
- remain
- discontinue
Where continue turns up in the game
continue is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. 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 continue is the trap
- contactverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is meet, in the sense "be in direct physical contact with", with continue sitting one tile away.
- lapseverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is expire, in the sense "to come to an end because a time limit has passed", and continue is on the board beside it.
- quitverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is stop, in the sense "put an end to a state or an activity", and continue is on the board beside it.
Play continue
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so continue 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.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. continue carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.