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Synonyms for bid
Synonyms for bid: play and press. 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 bid
Each of these belongs to a different sense of bid, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
an attempt to get something
He made a bid to gain attention.
The true synonym
play
Same sentence, swapped: He made a play to gain attention.
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 bid in the sentence quoted.
- tender
- command
- squeeze
ask for or request earnestly
The prophet bid all people to become good persons.
The true synonym
press
Same sentence, swapped: The prophet press all people to become good persons.
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.
- try
- step
- suit
Where bid turns up in the game
bid is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where bid is the trap
- wishverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is like, in the sense "to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something", and bid is on the board beside it.
- announcementnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is declaration, in the sense "a formal public statement", and bid is on the board beside it.
- replynoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is response, in the sense "the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange", with bid sitting one tile away.
- commandnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is mastery, in the sense "great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity", and bid is on the board beside it.
Play bid
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bid reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from actions at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. bid carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.