People and roles

Synonyms for eavesdrop

The synonym for eavesdrop recorded in this bank is snoop, in the sense "to secretly listen to a conversation without the speakers' knowledge". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for eavesdrop

snoopverb, in the sense "to secretly listen to a conversation without the speakers' knowledge"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for eavesdrop.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsPeople and roles

to secretly listen to a conversation without the speakers' knowledge

The nosy tenant liked to eavesdrop on her neighbors through the thin wall.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

snoop

Same sentence, swapped: The nosy tenant liked to snoop on her neighbors through the thin wall.

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 eavesdrop in the sentence quoted.

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Where eavesdrop turns up in the game

eavesdrop is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 eavesdrop is the trap

contriveverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is engineer, in the sense "to devise or plan cleverly, especially something elaborate", with eavesdrop sitting one tile away.
pontificateverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is declaim, in the sense "to speak in a pompous, self-important, dogmatic way", so eavesdrop is there to be ruled out.

Play eavesdrop

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