Giving and transferring

Synonyms for provide

The synonym for provide recorded in this bank is supply, in the sense "to supply someone with something they need". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for provide

supplyverb, in the sense "to supply someone with something they need"

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 provide is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsGiving and transferring

to supply someone with something they need

Volunteers provide blankets to families left homeless by the fire.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

supply

Same sentence, swapped: Volunteers supply blankets to families left homeless by the fire.

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 provide in the sentence quoted.

inspect
register
evacuate

Where provide turns up in the game

provide is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 provide is the trap

allowverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is let, in the sense "consent to, give permission", and provide is one of the three tiles that lose.
allowverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is permit, in the sense "allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting", and provide is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play provide

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so provide 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 giving and transferring words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

bigheartedadjectivegenerousgenerous and kind in spiritFoothillsHas a reason line changeverbexchangegive to, and receive from, one anotherFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line charitableadjectivegenerousgenerous in giving to those in needFoothillsHas a reason line charitablyadverbgenerouslyin a way that gives freely to those in needFoothillsHas a reason line handnoun, verbdealthe cards held in a card game by a given player at any given timeFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line handoutnoungiveawaymoney, food, or clothing given free to those in needFoothillsHas a reason line handovernountransferthe act of formally giving control or possession of something to someone elseFoothillsHas a reason line accentverb, nounstressput stress onFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line

A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. provide carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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