Giving and transferring

Synonyms for altruistic

The synonym for altruistic recorded in this bank is charitable, in the sense "showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others". 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 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for altruistic

charitableadjective, in the sense "showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and altruistic carries one sense so far.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, TreelineGiving and transferring

showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others

Volunteering every weekend at the shelter without pay struck her as altruistic, nothing more.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

charitable

Same sentence, swapped: Volunteering every weekend at the shelter without pay struck her as charitable, nothing more.

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 altruistic in the sentence quoted.

ambitious
diplomatic
pragmatic

Where altruistic turns up in the game

altruistic is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where altruistic is the trap

egocentricadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is selfish, in the sense "concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others", with altruistic sitting one tile away.

Play altruistic

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so altruistic 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.

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

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

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