Contact and joining
Synonyms for skip
The synonym for skip recorded in this bank is skim, in the sense "cause to skip over a surface". 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 skip
- skimverb, in the sense "cause to skip over a surface"
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 skip is audited in a second meaning.
cause to skip over a surface
Skip a stone across the pond.
The true synonym
skim
Same sentence, swapped: Skim a stone across the pond.
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.
- hop
- jump
- pitch
Where skip turns up in the game
skip 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where skip is the trap
- lamnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is getaway, in the sense "a rapid escape (as by criminals)", with skip sitting one tile away.
- plodverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is lumber, in the sense "to walk slowly and heavily, typically from tiredness", and skip is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play skip
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so skip 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 contact and joining words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. skip carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.