Making and creating
Synonyms for emulate
The synonym for emulate recorded in this bank is imitate, in the sense "to imitate someone's style or achievements in an effort to match them". 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 emulate
- imitateverb, in the sense "to imitate someone's style or achievements in an effort to match them"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and emulate carries one sense so far.
to imitate someone's style or achievements in an effort to match them
Young designers often emulate the bold style of their favorite architects.
The true synonym
imitate
Same sentence, swapped: Young designers often imitate the bold style of their favorite architects.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot emulate is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- criticize
- ignore
- outshine
Where emulate turns up in the game
emulate is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play emulate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so emulate 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 making and creating at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. emulate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.