People and roles
Synonyms for umpire
The synonym for umpire recorded in this bank is arbiter, in the sense "someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue". 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 umpire
- arbiternoun, in the sense "someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and umpire carries one sense so far.
someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
An umpire was appointed to settle the tax case.
The true synonym
arbiter
Same sentence, swapped: An arbiter was appointed to settle the tax case.
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.
- appraiser
- moderate
- intermediate
Where umpire turns up in the game
umpire is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play umpire
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so umpire 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 people and roles is the company umpire keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. umpire carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.