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Synonyms for bereft
The synonym for bereft recorded in this bank is mourning, in the sense "sorrowful through loss or deprivation". 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 bereft
- mourningadjective, in the sense "sorrowful through loss or deprivation"
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 bereft is audited in a second meaning.
sorrowful through loss or deprivation
He was bereft for months after his wife died.
The true synonym
mourning
Same sentence, swapped: He was mourning for months after his wife died.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- lovelorn
- fatherless
- motherless
Where bereft turns up in the game
bereft is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 bereft
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bereft reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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