People and roles
Synonyms for boastful
The synonym for boastful recorded in this bank is cocky, in the sense "excessively proud of one's own achievements, often speaking about them at length". 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 boastful
- cockyadjective, in the sense "excessively proud of one's own achievements, often speaking about them at length"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and boastful carries one sense so far.
excessively proud of one's own achievements, often speaking about them at length
The boastful athlete could not stop describing his trophy to strangers.
The true synonym
cocky
Same sentence, swapped: The cocky athlete could not stop describing his trophy to strangers.
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.
- bashful
- humble
- diligent
Where boastful turns up in the game
boastful is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 boastful is the trap
- ostentatiousadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is pretentious, in the sense "intended to attract notice and impress others", and boastful is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play boastful
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so boastful 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 people and roles at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. boastful carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.