Communication
Synonyms for spread
Synonyms for spread: dispersed, circulate, banquet, broadcast, gap, open, scatter and sprawl. 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 8 synonyms for spread
Interchangeable with spread, one per sense
Audited under spread's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one spread carries in that sense.
- dispersedadjective, in the sense "distributed or spread over a considerable extent"
- circulateverb, in the sense "become widely known and passed on"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name spread as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- banquetbanquet is a noun in the sense "a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed"
- broadcastbroadcast is a verb in the sense "cause to become widely known"
- gapgap is a noun in the sense "a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures"
- openopen is a verb in the sense "spread out or open from a closed or folded state"
- scatterscatter is a verb in the sense "strew or distribute over an area"
- sprawlsprawl is a verb in the sense "to spread out over a large area in a loose, irregular way"
two of these come from spread's own entries in the bank, and six were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
distributed or spread over a considerable extent
The refugees are spread across a dozen small towns.
The true synonym
dispersed
Same sentence, swapped: The refugees are dispersed across a dozen small towns.
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.
- flat
- split
- raised
become widely known and passed on
The rumor spread.
The true synonym
circulate
Same sentence, swapped: The rumor circulate.
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.
- open
- scatter
- journey
Where spread turns up in the game
spread is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where spread is the trap
- gatherverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is collect, in the sense "assemble or get together", and spread is one of the three tiles that lose.
- flourishverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is thrive, in the sense "to grow vigorously and healthily", with spread sitting one tile away.
- splitadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is disconnected, in the sense "having been divided", so spread is there to be ruled out.
- gulfnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is disconnect, in the sense "an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)", so spread is there to be ruled out.
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Closest first: other communication words at Ridgeline, 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. spread carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.