Contact and joining
Synonyms for repel
Synonyms for repel: drive and repulse. 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 repel
- driveverb, in the sense "cause to move back by force or influence"
- repulseverb, in the sense "force or drive back"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of repel, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
cause to move back by force or influence
Repel the enemy.
The true synonym
drive
Same sentence, swapped: Drive the enemy.
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.
- snub
- revolt
- attract
force or drive back
Repel the attacker.
The true synonym
repulse
Same sentence, swapped: Repulse the attacker.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot repel is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- disgust
- damp
- oppose
Where repel turns up in the game
repel 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where repel is the trap
- attractverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is pull, in the sense "direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes", with repel sitting one tile away.
- whetverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is quicken, in the sense "make keen or more acute", and repel is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play repel
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so repel 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 contact and joining is the company repel keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. repel carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.