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Synonyms for protege
The synonym for protege recorded in this bank is understudy, in the sense "a person guided, trained, and supported by a more experienced person, especially to inherit their role". 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 protege
- understudynoun, in the sense "a person guided, trained, and supported by a more experienced person, especially to inherit their role"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and protege carries one sense so far.
a person guided, trained, and supported by a more experienced person, especially to inherit their role
The retiring chef groomed his protege to take over the kitchen.
The true synonym
understudy
Same sentence, swapped: The retiring chef groomed his understudy to take over the kitchen.
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.
- critic
- customer
- inspector
Where protege turns up in the game
protege is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 protege
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so protege 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 social life at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. protege carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.