Groups and collections
Synonyms for squad
The synonym for squad recorded in this bank is team, in the sense "a small organized group of people working together, especially in sport or the military". 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 squad
- teamnoun, in the sense "a small organized group of people working together, especially in sport or the military"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for squad.
a small organized group of people working together, especially in sport or the military
The coach picked eleven players for the starting squad.
The true synonym
team
Same sentence, swapped: The coach picked eleven players for the starting team.
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.
- audience
- jury
- orchestra
Where squad turns up in the game
squad 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 squad
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so squad 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 groups and collections at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. squad carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.