Giving and transferring
Synonyms for bestow
The synonym for bestow recorded in this bank is confer, in the sense "to formally give something as an honor or gift". 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 bestow
- conferverb, in the sense "to formally give something as an honor or gift"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for bestow.
to formally give something as an honor or gift
Kings often bestow honorary titles upon their most loyal knights.
The true synonym
confer
Same sentence, swapped: Kings often confer honorary titles upon their most loyal knights.
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.
- announce
- recognize
- address
Where bestow turns up in the game
bestow 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 bestow is the trap
- plumpverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is fat, in the sense "make fat or plump", and bestow is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play bestow
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bestow 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.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. bestow carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.