Contact and joining

Synonyms for purse

The synonym for purse recorded in this bank is wrinkle, in the sense "gather or contract into wrinkles or folds". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for purse

wrinkleverb, in the sense "gather or contract into wrinkles or folds"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day purse is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineContact and joining

gather or contract into wrinkles or folds

Purse one's lips.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

wrinkle

Same sentence, swapped: Wrinkle one's lips.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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Where purse turns up in the game

purse 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 purse is the trap

bagnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is dish, in the sense "an activity that you like or at which you are superior", so purse is there to be ruled out.

Play purse

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so purse reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

excavateverbdigremove the inner part or the core ofRidgelineHas a reason line fastenverbfixcause to be firmly attachedRidgelineHas a reason line freeadjective, verbdetachednot fixed in positionRidgeline2 senses grateverbgrindmake a grating or grinding sound by rubbing togetherRidgelineHas a reason line plantverbsetput or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the groundFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line pluckverbtweakpull or pull out sharplyRidgeline plugverbsecurefill or close tightly with or as if with a plugTreelineHas a reason line hostilitynounenmitythe feeling of a hostile personRidgeline

Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else

purse is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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