Contact and joining
Synonyms for lubricate
The synonym for lubricate recorded in this bank is lube, in the sense "apply a lubricant to". 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 lubricate
- lubeverb, in the sense "apply a lubricant to"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for lubricate.
apply a lubricant to
Lubricate my car.
The true synonym
lube
Same sentence, swapped: Lube my car.
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.
- surcharge
- tincture
- unblock
Where lubricate turns up in the game
lubricate is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where lubricate is the trap
- invalidateverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is void, in the sense "take away the legal force of or render ineffective", and lubricate is on the board beside it.
Play lubricate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so lubricate reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because contact and joining is the company lubricate keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. lubricate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.