Actions
Synonyms for prohibition
The synonym for prohibition recorded in this bank is inhibition, in the sense "the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)". 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 prohibition
- inhibitionnoun, in the sense "the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)"
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 prohibition is audited in a second meaning.
the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
They were restrained by a prohibition in their charter.
The true synonym
inhibition
Same sentence, swapped: They were restrained by a inhibition in their charter.
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.
- accomplishment
- transfusion
- blockade
Where prohibition turns up in the game
prohibition is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 prohibition
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so prohibition 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 actions words at High Camp, 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. prohibition carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.