Giving and transferring
Synonyms for engage
The synonym for engage recorded in this bank is enlist, in the sense "hire for work or assistance". 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 engage
- enlistverb, in the sense "hire for work or assistance"
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 engage is audited in a second meaning.
hire for work or assistance
Engage aid, help, services, or support.
The true synonym
enlist
Same sentence, swapped: Enlist aid, help, services, or support.
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.
- pursue
- lease
- patent
Where engage turns up in the game
engage 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where engage is the trap
- combatverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is battle, in the sense "battle or contend against in or as if in a battle", with engage sitting one tile away.
- operateverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is control, in the sense "handle and cause to function", so engage is there to be ruled out.
- spillverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is shed, in the sense "cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over", with engage sitting one tile away.
- disengageverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is withdraw, in the sense "release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles", and engage is on the board beside it.
Play engage
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so engage reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because giving and transferring is the company engage keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. engage carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.