States and conditions

Synonyms for deserve

The synonym for deserve recorded in this bank is merit, in the sense "be worthy or deserving". 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 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line

The synonym for deserve

meritverb, in the sense "be worthy or deserving"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for deserve.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineStates and conditions

be worthy or deserving

You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done.

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

The true synonym

merit

Same sentence, swapped: You merit a promotion after all the hard work you have done.

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 deserve in the sentence quoted.

cost
draw
claim

Where deserve turns up in the game

deserve is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 deserve

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so deserve 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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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

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

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