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Synonyms for disguise
The synonym for disguise recorded in this bank is camouflage, in the sense "the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance". 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 disguise
- camouflagenoun, in the sense "the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and disguise carries one sense so far.
the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance
He is a master of disguise.
The true synonym
camouflage
Same sentence, swapped: He is a master of camouflage.
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.
- burial
- covering
- rig
Where disguise turns up in the game
disguise is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where disguise is the trap
- fraudnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is cheat, in the sense "the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme", with disguise sitting one tile away.
- morphverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is transform, in the sense "to change smoothly and gradually from one form into another", with disguise sitting one tile away.
Play disguise
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so disguise 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 actions at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. disguise carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.