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Synonyms for resort
Synonyms for resort: refuge and recourse. 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 resort
Interchangeable with resort in this sense
Audited under resort's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one resort carries in that sense.
- refugenoun, in the sense "act of turning to for assistance"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name resort as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- recourserecourse is a noun in the sense "something or someone turned to for assistance or security"
one of these comes from resort's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
act of turning to for assistance
An appeal to his uncle was his last resort.
The true synonym
refuge
Same sentence, swapped: An appeal to his uncle was his last refuge.
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 resort in the sentence quoted.
- repair
- boost
- relief
Where resort turns up in the game
resort is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where resort is the trap
- assistancenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is help, in the sense "a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do", so resort is there to be ruled out.
- repairverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is doctor, in the sense "restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken", and resort is one of the three tiles that lose.
- repairverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is remedy, in the sense "set straight or right", and resort is one of the three tiles that lose.
- strainverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is extend, in the sense "use to the utmost", and resort is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play resort
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so resort 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 actions is the company resort keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. resort carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.