Word library
Synonyms for verbatim
The synonym for verbatim recorded in this bank is direct, in the sense "in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker". 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 verbatim
- directadjective, in the sense "in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker"
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 verbatim is audited in a second meaning.
in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
He gave a verbatim quotation from the report.
The true synonym
direct
Same sentence, swapped: He gave a direct quotation from the report.
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.
- unflattering
- lifelike
- unromantic
Where verbatim turns up in the game
verbatim is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where verbatim is the trap
- directadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is exact, in the sense "lacking compromising or mitigating elements", so verbatim is there to be ruled out.
- directadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is unmediated, in the sense "having no intervening persons, agents, conditions", so verbatim is there to be ruled out.
- squarelyadverb, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is forthrightly, in the sense "directly and without evasion", and verbatim is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play verbatim
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so verbatim 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 words at High Camp, then their alphabetical neighbours.
The same bank, read from both sides
verbatim is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.