Contact and joining
Synonyms for impress
The synonym for impress recorded in this bank is imprint, in the sense "mark or stamp with or as if with pressure". 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 impress
- imprintverb, in the sense "mark or stamp with or as if with pressure"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for impress.
mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
To make a batik, you impress a design with wax.
The true synonym
imprint
Same sentence, swapped: To make a batik, you imprint a design with wax.
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 impress is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- affect
- shanghai
- smooth
Where impress turns up in the game
impress is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 impress
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so impress 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 contact and joining at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. impress carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.