Communication
Synonyms for evade
Synonyms for evade: duck and elude. 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 evade
- duckverb, in the sense "avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)"
- eludeverb, in the sense "escape, either physically or mentally"
All two are filed under evade's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
They tend to evade their responsibilities.
The true synonym
duck
Same sentence, swapped: They tend to duck their responsibilities.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- miss
- foil
- outsmart
escape, either physically or mentally
This difficult idea seems to evade her.
The true synonym
elude
Same sentence, swapped: This difficult idea seems to elude her.
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 evade is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- exfiltrate
- slip
- quail
Where evade turns up in the game
evade is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across 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 evade is the trap
- abstainverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is refrain, in the sense "choose not to consume", so evade is there to be ruled out.
Play evade
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so evade reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. evade carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.