Communication
Synonyms for reply
The synonym for reply recorded in this bank is response, in the sense "the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange". 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 reply
- responsenoun, in the sense "the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange"
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 reply is audited in a second meaning.
the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange
He growled his reply.
The true synonym
response
Same sentence, swapped: He growled his response.
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.
- bid
- proposition
- dispatch
Where reply turns up in the game
reply 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 reply is the trap
- exceptionnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is exclusion, in the sense "a deliberate act of omission", so reply is there to be ruled out.
Play reply
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so reply reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from communication at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. reply carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.