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Synonyms for cover
Synonyms for cover: screening, insure, canopy and top. 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 4 synonyms for cover
Interchangeable with cover, one per sense
Audited under cover's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one cover carries in that sense.
- screeningnoun, in the sense "the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it"
- insureverb, in the sense "protect by insurance"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name cover as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
two of these come from cover's own entries in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it
The cover concealed their guns from enemy aircraft.
The true synonym
screening
Same sentence, swapped: The screening concealed their guns from enemy aircraft.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where cover stands in the sentence above.
- top
- blanket
- stealing
protect by insurance
The insurance won't cover this.
The true synonym
insure
Same sentence, swapped: The insurance won't insure this.
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 cover is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- hide
- handle
- key
Where cover turns up in the game
cover 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 eight other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 8 puzzles where cover is the trap
- ballnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is baseball, in the sense "a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players", and cover is one of the three tiles that lose.
- rocknoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is stone, in the sense "a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter", and cover is one of the three tiles that lose.
- universenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is world, in the sense "everything that exists anywhere", and cover is on the board beside it.
- continueverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is preserve, in the sense "keep or maintain in unaltered condition", and cover is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play cover
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cover reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. cover carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.