Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for miss
The synonym for miss recorded in this bank is drop, in the sense "leave undone or leave out". 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 miss
- dropverb, in the sense "leave undone or leave out"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and miss carries one sense so far.
leave undone or leave out
The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten.
The true synonym
drop
Same sentence, swapped: The workers on the conveyor belt drop one out of ten.
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.
- escape
- lack
- move
Where miss turns up in the game
miss is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where miss is the trap
- wishverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is like, in the sense "to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something", so miss is there to be ruled out.
- dropverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is discharge, in the sense "remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave", with miss sitting one tile away.
- evadeverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is duck, in the sense "avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)", with miss sitting one tile away.
Play miss
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so miss 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 thinking and knowing words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. miss carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.