States and conditions
Synonyms for polish
Synonyms for polish: finish and burnish. 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 polish
Interchangeable with polish in this sense
Audited under polish's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one polish carries in that sense.
- finishnoun, in the sense "a highly developed state of perfection"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name polish as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- burnishburnish is a verb in the sense "to polish a surface, especially metal, by rubbing"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under polish and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
a highly developed state of perfection
They performed with great polish.
The true synonym
finish
Same sentence, swapped: They performed with great finish.
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.
- dream
- couth
- repair
Where polish turns up in the game
polish 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 six other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 6 puzzles where polish is the trap
- cobbleverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is patch, in the sense "to assemble something hastily from available parts", and polish is one of the three tiles that lose.
- sculptverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is carve, in the sense "to create a work of art by shaping material such as stone or clay", and polish is on the board beside it.
- craftverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is fashion, in the sense "to make or produce with skill and care", so polish is there to be ruled out.
- corrodeverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is oxidize, in the sense "to be gradually worn away by chemical reaction, especially rusting", with polish sitting one tile away.
Play polish
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so polish reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because states and conditions is the company polish keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. polish carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.