Making and creating

Synonyms for brew

The synonym for brew recorded in this bank is stir, in the sense "to develop or set in motion trouble or conflict, gradually forming". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line

The synonym for brew

stirverb, in the sense "to develop or set in motion trouble or conflict, gradually forming"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and brew carries one sense so far.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsMaking and creating

to develop or set in motion trouble or conflict, gradually forming

The rumor mill warned that management would brew fresh trouble over the new schedule.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

stir

Same sentence, swapped: The rumor mill warned that management would stir fresh trouble over the new schedule.

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 brew in the sentence quoted.

quash
report
tolerate

Where brew turns up in the game

brew is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 brew

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so brew reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. brew carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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