Giving and transferring
Synonyms for alms
The synonym for alms recorded in this bank is donations, in the sense "money or goods given to poor people as charity". 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 alms
- donationsnoun, in the sense "money or goods given to poor people as charity"
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 alms is audited in a second meaning.
money or goods given to poor people as charity
The monk stood outside the temple gate collecting alms from passersby each morning.
The true synonym
donations
Same sentence, swapped: The monk stood outside the temple gate collecting donations from passersby each morning.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- taxes
- fines
- wages
Where alms turns up in the game
alms is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play alms
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so alms reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other giving and transferring words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. alms carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.