Communication

Synonyms for reception

The synonym for reception recorded in this bank is response, in the sense "the manner in which something is greeted". 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 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for reception

responsenoun, in the sense "the manner in which something is greeted"

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

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineCommunication

the manner in which something is greeted

She did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

response

Same sentence, swapped: She did not expect the cold response she received from her superiors.

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 reception in the sentence quoted.

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Where reception turns up in the game

reception is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where reception is the trap

assumptionnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is premise, in the sense "a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn", and reception is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play reception

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so reception 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. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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

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