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Synonyms for rest
Synonyms for rest: balance, pillow, repose and sleep. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for rest
Interchangeable with rest in this sense
Audited under rest's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one rest carries in that sense.
- balancenoun, in the sense "something left after other parts have been taken away"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name rest as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
one of these comes from rest's own entry in the bank, and three were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
something left after other parts have been taken away
He threw away the rest.
The true synonym
balance
Same sentence, swapped: He threw away the balance.
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 rest in the sentence quoted.
- sleep
- ease
- point
Where rest turns up in the game
rest 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 five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where rest is the trap
- saunterverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is amble, in the sense "to walk slowly in a relaxed, unhurried manner", and rest is on the board beside it.
- coolnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is poise, in the sense "great coolness and composure under strain", so rest is there to be ruled out.
- easenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is simplicity, in the sense "freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort", and rest is on the board beside it.
- reliefnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is easing, in the sense "the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)", so rest is there to be ruled out.
Play rest
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so rest 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 relations words at Foothills, 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. rest carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.