Contact and joining
Synonyms for stick
Synonyms for stick: deposit, adhere and stay. 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 3 synonyms for stick
Interchangeable with stick in this sense
Audited under stick's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one stick carries in that sense.
- depositverb, in the sense "put, fix, force, or implant"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name stick as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: one audited under stick and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
put, fix, force, or implant
Just stick the box in the corner for now.
The true synonym
deposit
Same sentence, swapped: Just deposit the box in the corner for now.
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.
- beat
- remain
- dislodge
Where stick turns up in the game
stick 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where stick is the trap
- beatverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is crush, in the sense "come out better in a competition, race, or conflict", and stick is one of the three tiles that lose.
- bondverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is tie, in the sense "create social or emotional ties", so stick is there to be ruled out.
- stayverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is delay, in the sense "stop or halt", so stick is there to be ruled out.
- beatverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is outsmart, in the sense "beat through cleverness and wit", and stick is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play stick
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so stick 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 contact and joining words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
stick is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.