People and roles
Synonyms for herald
The synonym for herald recorded in this bank is trumpeter, in the sense "a person who announces important news". 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 herald
- trumpeternoun, in the sense "a person who announces important news"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and herald carries one sense so far.
a person who announces important news
The chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet.
The true synonym
trumpeter
Same sentence, swapped: The chieftain had a trumpeter who announced his arrival with a trumpet.
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 herald is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- predecessor
- bearer
- runner
Where herald turns up in the game
herald 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 herald
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so herald 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 people and roles 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. herald carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.