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Synonyms for diversion
Synonyms for diversion: deviation and recreation. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for diversion
Interchangeable with diversion in this sense
Audited under diversion's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one diversion carries in that sense.
- deviationnoun, in the sense "a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name diversion as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- recreationrecreation is a noun in the sense "an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates"
The first group is filed under diversion's own sense. The second reaches diversion from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
A diversion from the main highway.
The true synonym
deviation
Same sentence, swapped: A deviation from the main highway.
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 diversion in the sentence quoted.
- recreation
- stem
- swerve
Where diversion turns up in the game
diversion 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where diversion is the trap
- disturbancenoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is perturbation, in the sense "activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption", so diversion is there to be ruled out.
Play diversion
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so diversion 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.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. diversion carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.