Qualities
Synonyms for placate
The synonym for placate recorded in this bank is appease, in the sense "to make someone less angry or hostile". 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 placate
- appeaseverb, in the sense "to make someone less angry or hostile"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and placate carries one sense so far.
to make someone less angry or hostile
The manager offered a free meal to placate the furious customer.
The true synonym
appease
Same sentence, swapped: The manager offered a free meal to appease the furious customer.
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.
- persuade
- distract
- reward
Where placate turns up in the game
placate 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 placate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so placate 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 qualities words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. placate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.