Communication

Synonyms for crawfish

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · verb · Reason line included

The senseverbTier 4, High CampCommunication

make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him.

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

The true synonym

retreat

Same sentence, swapped: We'll have to retreat out from meeting with him.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for crawfish as it is used in the sentence above.

quench
extinguish
bog

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Closest first: other communication words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

faxverbfacsimilesend something via a facsimile machineHigh CampHas a reason line floutverbscofftreat with contemptuous disregardHigh Camp floweryadjectiveornatemarked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative detailsHigh Camp gravellyadjectiveroughunpleasantly harsh or grating in soundHigh Camp nasaladjectivepinchedsounding as if the nose were pinchedRidgeline newsnounwordinformation about recent and important eventsFoothillsHas a reason line nicknamenounmonikera familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)High Camp cloisteredadjectivesecludedproviding privacy or seclusionHigh Camp

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