Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for brand
The synonym for brand recorded in this bank is make, in the sense "a recognizable kind". 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 brand
- makenoun, in the sense "a recognizable kind"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and brand carries one sense so far.
a recognizable kind
There's a new brand of hero in the movies now.
The true synonym
make
Same sentence, swapped: There's a new make of hero in the movies now.
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.
- steel
- stain
- colour
Where brand turns up in the game
brand 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 brand is the trap
- awardnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is laurels, in the sense "a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction", and brand is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play brand
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so brand 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 thinking and knowing at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. brand carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.