Giving and transferring
Synonyms for bequest
Synonyms for bequest: inheritance and legacy. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for bequest
Interchangeable with bequest in this sense
Audited under bequest's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one bequest carries in that sense.
- inheritancenoun, in the sense "money or property left to someone in a will"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name bequest as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- legacylegacy is a noun in the sense "money or property left to someone by a will"
one of these comes from bequest's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
money or property left to someone in a will
Her grandmother's bequest paid for the entire kitchen renovation.
The true synonym
inheritance
Same sentence, swapped: Her grandmother's inheritance paid for the entire kitchen renovation.
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.
- mortgage
- pension
- allowance
Where bequest turns up in the game
bequest is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 bequest
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bequest 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 Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. bequest carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.