Events
Synonyms for encounter
The synonym for encounter recorded in this bank is meeting, in the sense "a casual or unexpected convergence". 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 encounter
- meetingnoun, in the sense "a casual or unexpected convergence"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day encounter is audited in a second meaning.
a casual or unexpected convergence
There was a brief encounter in the hallway.
The true synonym
meeting
Same sentence, swapped: There was a brief meeting in the hallway.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where encounter stands in the sentence above.
- showdown
- struggle
- advance
Where encounter turns up in the game
encounter is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 encounter is the trap
- receiveverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is get, in the sense "receive a specified treatment (abstract)", and encounter is one of the three tiles that lose.
- meetingnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is merging, in the sense "the act of joining together as one", and encounter is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play encounter
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so encounter reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other events words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
encounter is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.