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Synonyms for initiate

The synonym for initiate recorded in this bank is enlightened, in the sense "people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for initiate

enlightenednoun, in the sense "people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and initiate carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineGroups and collections

people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity

It is very familiar to the initiate.

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The true synonym

enlightened

Same sentence, swapped: It is very familiar to the enlightened.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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Where initiate turns up in the game

initiate 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.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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