Social life

Synonyms for behave

The synonym for behave recorded in this bank is comport, in the sense "behave well or properly". 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 4, High Camp · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line

The synonym for behave

comportverb, in the sense "behave well or properly"

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

The senseverbTier 4, High CampSocial life

behave well or properly

The children must learn to behave.

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

The true synonym

comport

Same sentence, swapped: The children must learn to comport.

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.

misbehave
struggle
bound

Where behave turns up in the game

behave is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 behave

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so behave reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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