Communication
Synonyms for pause
The synonym for pause recorded in this bank is break, in the sense "cease an action temporarily". 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 pause
- breakverb, in the sense "cease an action temporarily"
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 pause is audited in a second meaning.
cease an action temporarily
We pause for station identification.
The true synonym
break
Same sentence, swapped: We break for station identification.
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.
- hesitate
- inject
- jam
Where pause turns up in the game
pause 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where pause is the trap
- postponeverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is table, in the sense "hold back to a later time", and pause is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play pause
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pause 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 communication words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. pause carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.