Making and creating
Synonyms for contrive
The synonym for contrive recorded in this bank is engineer, in the sense "to devise or plan cleverly, especially something elaborate". 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 contrive
- engineerverb, in the sense "to devise or plan cleverly, especially something elaborate"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day contrive is audited in a second meaning.
to devise or plan cleverly, especially something elaborate
The plotters contrive an elaborate scheme every time a new guard is posted.
The true synonym
engineer
Same sentence, swapped: The plotters engineer an elaborate scheme every time a new guard is posted.
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 contrive is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- loiter
- boast
- eavesdrop
Where contrive turns up in the game
contrive is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 contrive
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so contrive 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 making and creating is the company contrive keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. contrive carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.