Events

Synonyms for usher

The synonym for usher recorded in this bank is guide, in the sense "to escort someone to their place at an event". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line

The synonym for usher

guideverb, in the sense "to escort someone to their place at an event"

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 usher is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsEvents

to escort someone to their place at an event

Volunteers will usher guests to their seats before the show starts.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

guide

Same sentence, swapped: Volunteers will guide guests to their seats before the show starts.

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 usher is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

entertain
register
applaud

Where usher turns up in the game

usher is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 usher

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so usher reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

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