Making and creating
Synonyms for replicate
The synonym for replicate recorded in this bank is duplicate, in the sense "to reproduce or copy exactly". 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 replicate
- duplicateverb, in the sense "to reproduce or copy exactly"
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 replicate is audited in a second meaning.
to reproduce or copy exactly
Scientists replicate an experiment to confirm surprising results.
The true synonym
duplicate
Same sentence, swapped: Scientists duplicate an experiment to confirm surprising results.
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 replicate is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- fund
- cite
- archive
Where replicate turns up in the game
replicate is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 replicate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so replicate 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 making and creating words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. replicate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.