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Synonyms for foil
The synonym for foil recorded in this bank is cross, in the sense "hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of". 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 foil
- crossverb, in the sense "hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of"
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 foil is audited in a second meaning.
hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
Foil your opponent.
The true synonym
cross
Same sentence, swapped: Cross your opponent.
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 foil is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- blockade
- avert
- buffalo
Where foil turns up in the game
foil 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where foil is the trap
- evadeverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is duck, in the sense "avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)", so foil is there to be ruled out.
Play foil
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so foil 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 social life at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. foil carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.