Groups and collections
Synonyms for office
Synonyms for office: authority and part. 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 office
Interchangeable with office in this sense
Audited under office's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one office carries in that sense.
- authoritynoun, in the sense "an administrative unit of government"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name office as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- partpart is a noun in the sense "the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group"
The first group is filed under office's own sense. The second reaches office from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
an administrative unit of government
Office of Management and Budget.
The true synonym
authority
Same sentence, swapped: Authority of Management and Budget.
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 office is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- part
- situation
- council
Where office turns up in the game
office 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 five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where office is the trap
- powernoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is electricity, in the sense "energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor", with office sitting one tile away.
- powernoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is force, in the sense "one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority", with office sitting one tile away.
- partnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is portion, in the sense "something less than the whole of a human artifact", with office sitting one tile away.
- protectionnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is tribute, in the sense "payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence", so office is there to be ruled out.
Play office
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so office reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from groups and collections at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. office carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.