Contact and joining

Synonyms for paste

The synonym for paste recorded in this bank is glue, in the sense "join or attach with or as if with glue". 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 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for paste

glueverb, in the sense "join or attach with or as if with glue"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day paste is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineContact and joining

join or attach with or as if with glue

Paste the sign on the wall.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

glue

Same sentence, swapped: Glue the sign on the wall.

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 paste is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

harness
insert
dash

Where paste turns up in the game

paste is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where paste is the trap

blendverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is mix, in the sense "mix together different elements", and paste is one of the three tiles that lose.
thornnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is irritant, in the sense "something that causes irritation and annoyance", and paste is on the board beside it.

Play paste

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so paste reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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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. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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