Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for presage
The synonym for presage recorded in this bank is adumbrate, in the sense "to be a sign that something significant will happen, to foreshadow". 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 presage
- adumbrateverb, in the sense "to be a sign that something significant will happen, to foreshadow"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and presage carries one sense so far.
to be a sign that something significant will happen, to foreshadow
Dark clouds gathering over the harbor seemed to presage the storm that hit at midnight.
The true synonym
adumbrate
Same sentence, swapped: Dark clouds gathering over the harbor seemed to adumbrate the storm that hit at midnight.
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 presage in the sentence quoted.
- accompany
- follow
- resemble
Where presage turns up in the game
presage is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play presage
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so presage 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 thinking and knowing words at Summit, 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. presage carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.