Communication
Synonyms for warn
The synonym for warn recorded in this bank is discourage, in the sense "advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior". 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 warn
- discourageverb, in the sense "advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for warn.
advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior
I warn you against false assumptions.
The true synonym
discourage
Same sentence, swapped: I discourage you against false assumptions.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for warn in the sentence quoted.
- tip
- press
- claim
Where warn turns up in the game
warn 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where warn is the trap
- disqualifyverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is bar, in the sense "to officially remove a competitor from a contest for breaking a rule", so warn is there to be ruled out.
- inviteverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is ask, in the sense "to ask someone to come to an event or place", with warn sitting one tile away.
- alienateverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is estrange, in the sense "to cause someone to become unfriendly or distant, especially through one's own actions", with warn sitting one tile away.
- entrustverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is consign, in the sense "to give someone responsibility for something or put it into their care", so warn is there to be ruled out.
Play warn
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so warn 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 communication words at Ridgeline, 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. warn carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.