Actions
Synonyms for retaliation
The synonym for retaliation recorded in this bank is reprisal, in the sense "an act of returning harm for harm received". 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 retaliation
- reprisalnoun, in the sense "an act of returning harm for harm received"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for retaliation.
an act of returning harm for harm received
The airstrike was widely seen as retaliation for the border incident the week before.
The true synonym
reprisal
Same sentence, swapped: The airstrike was widely seen as reprisal for the border incident the week before.
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.
- negotiation
- surveillance
- ceasefire
Where retaliation turns up in the game
retaliation is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 retaliation
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so retaliation 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 actions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. retaliation carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.