People and roles

Synonyms for worker

The synonym for worker recorded in this bank is laborer, in the sense "a person who performs manual or physical labor". 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 · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for worker

laborernoun, in the sense "a person who performs manual or physical labor"

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 worker is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsPeople and roles

a person who performs manual or physical labor

Every worker on the factory floor wore a hard hat for safety.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

laborer

Same sentence, swapped: Every laborer on the factory floor wore a hard hat for safety.

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 worker in the sentence quoted.

manager
supervisor
executive

Where worker turns up in the game

worker is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where worker is the trap

destinynoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is fate, in the sense "the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events", and worker is on the board beside it.
operatornoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is manipulator, in the sense "an agent that operates some apparatus or machine", and worker is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play worker

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

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. worker carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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