Contact and joining
Synonyms for extricate
The synonym for extricate recorded in this bank is untangle, in the sense "release from entanglement of difficulty". 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 extricate
- untangleverb, in the sense "release from entanglement of difficulty"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and extricate carries one sense so far.
release from entanglement of difficulty
I cannot extricate myself from this task.
The true synonym
untangle
Same sentence, swapped: I cannot untangle myself from this task.
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 extricate is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- unclog
- excise
- uproot
Where extricate turns up in the game
extricate is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 extricate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so extricate 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 contact and joining words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. extricate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.