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Synonyms for pocket
Synonyms for pocket: sack and enclave. 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 pocket
Interchangeable with pocket in this sense
Audited under pocket's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one pocket carries in that sense.
- sacknoun, in the sense "an enclosed space"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name pocket as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- enclaveenclave is a noun in the sense "a small distinct area enclosed within a larger one"
one of these comes from pocket's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
an enclosed space
The seeds sit in a small pocket inside the fruit.
The true synonym
sack
Same sentence, swapped: The seeds sit in a small sack inside the fruit.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where pocket stands in the sentence above.
- scoop
- hollow
- stomach
Where pocket turns up in the game
pocket 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where pocket is the trap
- ripnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is rent, in the sense "an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart", with pocket sitting one tile away.
- openingnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is gap, in the sense "an open or empty space in or between things", and pocket is one of the three tiles that lose.
- scoopnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is exclusive, in the sense "a news report that is reported first by one news organization", and pocket is one of the three tiles that lose.
- profferverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is offer, in the sense "to hold out something for someone to accept", and pocket is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play pocket
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pocket 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 shapes at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
pocket is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.