Qualities
Synonyms for guise
The synonym for guise recorded in this bank is pretext, in the sense "an artful or simulated semblance". 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 guise
- pretextnoun, in the sense "an artful or simulated semblance"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for guise.
an artful or simulated semblance
Under the guise of friendship he betrayed them.
The true synonym
pretext
Same sentence, swapped: Under the pretext of friendship he betrayed them.
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.
- verisimilitude
- effect
- image
Where guise turns up in the game
guise is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 guise
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so guise reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company guise keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. guise carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.