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Synonyms for dawdle
The synonym for dawdle recorded in this bank is dally, in the sense "to move or act slowly, wasting time". 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 dawdle
- dallyverb, in the sense "to move or act slowly, wasting time"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and dawdle carries one sense so far.
to move or act slowly, wasting time
If you dawdle any longer, we will miss the bus.
The true synonym
dally
Same sentence, swapped: If you dally any longer, we will miss the bus.
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.
- hurry
- rush
- sprint
Where dawdle turns up in the game
dawdle is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 dawdle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dawdle reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from time at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. dawdle carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.