Giving and transferring
Synonyms for recall
Synonyms for recall: withdraw and recollection. 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 recall
- withdrawverb, in the sense "cause to be returned"
- recollectionnoun, in the sense "the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of recall, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
cause to be returned
Recall the defective auto tires.
The true synonym
withdraw
Same sentence, swapped: Withdraw the defective auto tires.
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 recall in the sentence quoted.
- echo
- retrieve
- collect
the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
He has total recall of the episode.
The true synonym
recollection
Same sentence, swapped: He has total recollection of the episode.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- callback
- connection
- identification
Where recall turns up in the game
recall is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where recall is the trap
- expressverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is state, in the sense "indicate through a symbol, formula, etc", with recall sitting one tile away.
- issueverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is supply, in the sense "circulate or distribute or equip with", and recall is one of the three tiles that lose.
- vacationnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is holiday, in the sense "leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure", and recall is on the board beside it.
- associationnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is connection, in the sense "the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination", and recall is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play recall
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so recall 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 wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. recall carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.