Qualities

Synonyms for complement

The synonym for complement recorded in this bank is accompaniment, in the sense "something added to complete or embellish or make perfect". 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 4, High Camp · 1 sense · noun · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for complement

accompanimentnoun, in the sense "something added to complete or embellish or make perfect"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day complement is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 4, High CampQualities

something added to complete or embellish or make perfect

A fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

accompaniment

Same sentence, swapped: A fine wine is a perfect accompaniment to the dinner.

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.

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Where complement turns up in the game

complement is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where complement is the trap

offsetverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is cancel, in the sense "make up for", so complement is there to be ruled out.
offsetverb, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is countervail, in the sense "compensate for or counterbalance", so complement is there to be ruled out.

Play complement

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

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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One vocabulary, two jobs

complement is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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