Events
Synonyms for preliminary
The synonym for preliminary recorded in this bank is overture, in the sense "something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows". 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 preliminary
- overturenoun, in the sense "something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and preliminary carries one sense so far.
something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
Training is a necessary preliminary to employment.
The true synonym
overture
Same sentence, swapped: Training is a necessary overture to employment.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for preliminary in the sentence quoted.
- procession
- germination
- processing
Where preliminary turns up in the game
preliminary 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 preliminary is the trap
- floatingadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is drifting, in the sense "continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another", and preliminary is on the board beside it.
Play preliminary
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so preliminary 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 events is the company preliminary keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. preliminary carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.