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Synonyms for lap
Synonyms for lap: circle and overlap. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for lap
- circlenoun, in the sense "movement once around a course"
- overlapnoun, in the sense "a flap that lies over another part"
All two are filed under lap's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
movement once around a course
He drove an extra lap just for insurance.
The true synonym
circle
Same sentence, swapped: He drove an extra circle just for insurance.
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 lap is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- lick
- overlap
- stroke
a flap that lies over another part
The lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches.
The true synonym
overlap
Same sentence, swapped: The overlap of the shingles should be at least ten inches.
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.
- lick
- circuit
- tongue
Where lap turns up in the game
lap is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in six other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 6 puzzles where lap is the trap
- kingdomnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is land, in the sense "a domain in which something is dominant", and lap is one of the three tiles that lose.
- bundlenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is pile, in the sense "a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)", with lap sitting one tile away.
- provincenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is responsibility, in the sense "the proper sphere or extent of your activities", with lap sitting one tile away.
- overlapnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is intersection, in the sense "a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena", and lap is on the board beside it.
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The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so lap reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. lap carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.