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Synonyms for tinker
The synonym for tinker recorded in this bank is fiddle, in the sense "try to fix or mend". 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 tinker
- fiddleverb, in the sense "try to fix or mend"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and tinker carries one sense so far.
try to fix or mend
Can you tinker with the radio before the trip?
The true synonym
fiddle
Same sentence, swapped: Can you fiddle with the radio before the trip?
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.
- heel
- vamp
- sole
Where tinker turns up in the game
tinker is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 tinker is the trap
- occupyverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is take, in the sense "assume, as of positions or roles", and tinker is on the board beside it.
Play tinker
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tinker reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because change is the company tinker keeps.
One vocabulary, two jobs
tinker is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.