Giving and transferring
Synonyms for obliging
Synonyms for obliging: accommodating and neighborly. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for obliging
Interchangeable with obliging in this sense
Audited under obliging's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one obliging carries in that sense.
- accommodatingadjective, in the sense "willing to do favors; helpful and accommodating"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name obliging as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- neighborlyneighborly is an adjective in the sense "friendly and helpful in the way expected of a good neighbor"
one of these comes from obliging's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
willing to do favors; helpful and accommodating
The obliging clerk stayed twenty minutes past closing to help me find the right size.
The true synonym
accommodating
Same sentence, swapped: The accommodating clerk stayed twenty minutes past closing to help me find the right size.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot obliging is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- efficient
- strict
- curious
Where obliging turns up in the game
obliging 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 obliging
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so obliging reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from giving and transferring at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. obliging carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.