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Synonyms for prayer

The synonym for prayer recorded in this bank is supplication, in the sense "the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)". 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 4, High Camp · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for prayer

supplicationnoun, in the sense "the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)"

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

The sensenounTier 4, High CampActions

the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)

The priest sank to his knees in prayer.

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

The true synonym

supplication

Same sentence, swapped: The priest sank to his knees in supplication.

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 prayer in the sentence quoted.

praise
devotion
mass

Where prayer turns up in the game

prayer is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where prayer is the trap

appealnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is charm, in the sense "attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates", and prayer is one of the three tiles that lose.
wordnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is book, in the sense "the sacred writings of the Christian religions", with prayer sitting one tile away.

Play prayer

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so prayer 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. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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