Contact and joining

Synonyms for impress

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb · Reason line included

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineContact and joining

mark or stamp with or as if with pressure

To make a batik, you impress a design with wax.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

imprint

Same sentence, swapped: To make a batik, you imprint a design with wax.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for impress as it is used in the sentence above.

affect
shanghai
smooth

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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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