Communication
Synonyms for digress
The synonym for digress recorded in this bank is wander, in the sense "lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking". 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 digress
- wanderverb, in the sense "lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for digress.
lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
Don't digress when you give a lecture.
The true synonym
wander
Same sentence, swapped: Don't wander when you give a lecture.
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.
- foretell
- publicize
- harbinger
Where digress turns up in the game
digress is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where digress is the trap
- culminateverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is climax, in the sense "to reach a climax as the final event in a series", with digress sitting one tile away.
Play digress
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so digress 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 communication is the company digress keeps.
The same bank, read from both sides
digress is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.