Movement
Synonyms for ply
The synonym for ply recorded in this bank is run, in the sense "travel a route regularly". 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 ply
- runverb, in the sense "travel a route regularly"
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 ply is audited in a second meaning.
travel a route regularly
Ships ply the waters near the coast.
The true synonym
run
Same sentence, swapped: Ships run the waters near the coast.
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 ply is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- cater
- visit
- gather
Where ply turns up in the game
ply is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 ply is the trap
- consecrateverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is give, in the sense "give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause", and ply is on the board beside it.
Play ply
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ply 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 movement words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ply carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.