Contact and joining

Synonyms for dip

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb · Reason line included

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineContact and joining

immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate

Dip the brush into the paint.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

plunge

Same sentence, swapped: Plunge the brush into the paint.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for dip as it is used in the sentence above.

dim
duck
soak

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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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