Groups and collections
Synonyms for staff
The synonym for staff recorded in this bank is faculty, in the sense "the body of teachers and administrators at a school". 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 staff
- facultynoun, in the sense "the body of teachers and administrators at a school"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and staff carries one sense so far.
the body of teachers and administrators at a school
The dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university.
The true synonym
faculty
Same sentence, swapped: The dean addressed the letter to the entire faculty of the university.
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.
- stave
- vote
- jury
Where staff turns up in the game
staff 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where staff is the trap
- baseverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is found, in the sense "use as a basis for", with staff sitting one tile away.
- notenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is tone, in the sense "a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound", and staff is on the board beside it.
- tieverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is draw, in the sense "finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc", and staff is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play staff
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so staff 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 groups and collections words at Treeline, 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. staff carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.