Contact and joining
Synonyms for tuck
The synonym for tuck recorded in this bank is insert, in the sense "fit snugly into". 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 tuck
- insertverb, in the sense "fit snugly into"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day tuck is audited in a second meaning.
fit snugly into
Tuck your shirttail in.
The true synonym
insert
Same sentence, swapped: Insert your shirttail in.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot tuck is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- gather
- shrine
- swallow
Where tuck turns up in the game
tuck 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 tuck is the trap
- gatherverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is collect, in the sense "assemble or get together", and tuck is on the board beside it.
- gatherverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is meet, in the sense "collect in one place", and tuck is on the board beside it.
- insertverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is enter, in the sense "put or introduce into something", and tuck is one of the three tiles that lose.
- insertverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is introduce, in the sense "place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing", and tuck is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play tuck
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tuck 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.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. tuck carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.