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Synonyms for defer
The synonym for defer recorded in this bank is postpone, in the sense "to put off an action until a later 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 defer
- postponeverb, in the sense "to put off an action until a later time"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for defer.
to put off an action until a later time
The committee decided to defer the vote until next month.
The true synonym
postpone
Same sentence, swapped: The committee decided to postpone the vote until next month.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for defer in the sentence quoted.
- cancel
- finalize
- reject
Where defer turns up in the game
defer is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 defer
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so defer 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 time 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. defer carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.