Contact and joining

Synonyms for rope

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

Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineContact and joining

fasten with a rope

We must rope the goat to the fence post.

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

The true synonym

leash

Same sentence, swapped: We must leash the goat to the fence post.

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 rope as it is used in the sentence above.

lasso
loop
cord

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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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