Social life

Synonyms for comply

The synonym for comply recorded in this bank is follow, in the sense "act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes". 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for comply

followverb, in the sense "act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes"

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

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineSocial life

act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes

You must comply or else!

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

Same sentence, swapped: You must follow or else!

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.

applaud
nod
succumb

Where comply turns up in the game

comply is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 comply is the trap

heedverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is listen, in the sense "pay close attention to", and comply is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play comply

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so comply 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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Closest first: other social life words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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The same bank, read from both sides

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

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