Qualities
Synonyms for price
Synonyms for price: cost, toll and terms. 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 3 synonyms for price
Interchangeable with price, one per sense
Audited under price's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one price carries in that sense.
- costnoun, in the sense "the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)"
- tollnoun, in the sense "value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name price as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- termsterms is a noun in the sense "the amount of money needed to purchase something"
two of these come from price's own entries 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.
the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
He puts a high price on his services.
price in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The dealer put a price on the antique clock before opening the shop.
- She refused to lower the price on the necklace despite the customer's haggling.
How it behaves: In this sense price typically follows verbs like put, set, or fix and takes a prepositional phrase with on, often in commercial or valuation contexts.
The true synonym
cost
Same sentence, swapped: He puts a high cost on his services.
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.
- terms
- standard
- importance
value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
The price of success is hard work.
The true synonym
toll
Same sentence, swapped: The toll of success is hard work.
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 price in the sentence quoted.
- damage
- standard
- importance
Where price turns up in the game
price is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. 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 price is the trap
- meritnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is virtue, in the sense "any admirable quality or attribute", and price is one of the three tiles that lose.
- supplyverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is furnish, in the sense "to provide something needed, typically in quantity or on an ongoing basis", and price is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play price
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so price 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 Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. price carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.