Communication
Synonyms for sport
The synonym for sport recorded in this bank is play, in the sense "verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)". 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 sport
- playnoun, in the sense "verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for sport.
verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
He said it in sport.
The true synonym
play
Same sentence, swapped: He said it in play.
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.
- mutant
- bite
- irony
Where sport turns up in the game
sport is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where sport is the trap
- funnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is playfulness, in the sense "a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement", with sport sitting one tile away.
Play sport
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sport 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 ring widens as it goes, from communication at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
One vocabulary, two jobs
sport is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.