States and conditions
Synonyms for station
Synonyms for station: place and post. 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 2 synonyms for station
- placenoun, in the sense "proper or designated social situation"
- postnoun, in the sense "the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of station, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
proper or designated social situation
The responsibilities of a man in his station.
The true synonym
place
Same sentence, swapped: The responsibilities of a man in his place.
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.
- quality
- race
- level
the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
A sentry station.
The true synonym
post
Same sentence, swapped: A sentry post.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for station in the sentence quoted.
- lead
- lie
- group
Where station turns up in the game
station is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across 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 station is the trap
- rockverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is sway, in the sense "cause to move back and forth", so station is there to be ruled out.
Play station
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so station 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 states and conditions at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. station carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.