States and conditions
Synonyms for incommunicado
The synonym for incommunicado recorded in this bank is sequestered, in the sense "in a state without means or right to communicate with others". 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 incommunicado
- sequesteredadverb, in the sense "in a state without means or right to communicate with others"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for incommunicado.
in a state without means or right to communicate with others
During the negotiations, the hostage was held incommunicado for six days.
The true synonym
sequestered
Same sentence, swapped: During the negotiations, the hostage was held sequestered for six days.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- indicted
- extradited
- exonerated
Where incommunicado turns up in the game
incommunicado 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 incommunicado
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so incommunicado 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 states and conditions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. incommunicado carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.