Communication

Synonyms for relation

The synonym for relation recorded in this bank is telling, in the sense "an act of narration". 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

The synonym for relation

tellingnoun, in the sense "an act of narration"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and relation carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineCommunication

an act of narration

He was the hero according to his own relation.

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

The true synonym

telling

Same sentence, swapped: He was the hero according to his own telling.

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.

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Where relation turns up in the game

relation is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 relation

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so relation 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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