Emotions
Synonyms for hostility
The synonym for hostility recorded in this bank is enmity, in the sense "the feeling of a hostile person". 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 hostility
- enmitynoun, in the sense "the feeling of a hostile person"
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 hostility is audited in a second meaning.
the feeling of a hostile person
He could no longer contain his hostility.
The true synonym
enmity
Same sentence, swapped: He could no longer contain his enmity.
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.
- despising
- misogyny
- disagreement
Where hostility turns up in the game
hostility 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 hostility
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hostility reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other emotions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One word a day, five rungs, and a sentence under each
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. The daily stack climbs from tier one to tier five, and every answer shows the meaning it was audited in.