Communication
Synonyms for warning
The synonym for warning recorded in this bank is admonition, in the sense "cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)". 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 warning
- admonitionnoun, in the sense "cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and warning carries one sense so far.
cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)
The warning was to beware of surprises.
The true synonym
admonition
Same sentence, swapped: The admonition was to beware of surprises.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where warning stands in the sentence above.
- indication
- rush
- tip
Where warning turns up in the game
warning 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 warning is the trap
- rushnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is charge, in the sense "the swift release of a store of affective force", and warning is on the board beside it.
- modicumnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is smidgen, in the sense "a small quantity of something, especially something desirable", and warning is on the board beside it.
- schemenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is ruse, in the sense "a secret or underhanded plan to achieve something", with warning sitting one tile away.
Play warning
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so warning 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 communication is the company warning keeps.
One vocabulary, two jobs
warning 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.