Communication

Synonyms for digress

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

The senseverbTier 4, High CampCommunication

lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking

Don't digress when you give a lecture.

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

The true synonym

wander

Same sentence, swapped: Don't wander when you give a lecture.

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 digress as it is used in the sentence above.

foretell
publicize
harbinger

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

contentiousadjectivecombativeinclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suitsHigh Camp conversationaladjectivecolloquialcharacteristic of informal spoken language or conversationHigh Camp crawfishverbretreatmake a retreat from an earlier commitment or activityHigh CampHas a reason line diagnosticadjectivesymptomaticcharacteristic or indicative of a diseaseHigh Camp floutverbscofftreat with contemptuous disregardHigh Camp floweryadjectiveornatemarked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative detailsHigh Camp forteadjective, nounloudindicating that said piece or segment should be played loudlyRidgeline2 sensesHas a reason line accordnounconformityconcurrence of opinionHigh CampHas a reason line

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