Social life
Synonyms for shun
The synonym for shun recorded in this bank is avoid, in the sense "to deliberately avoid or keep away from someone". 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 shun
- avoidverb, in the sense "to deliberately avoid or keep away from someone"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and shun carries one sense so far.
to deliberately avoid or keep away from someone.
After the scandal broke, old friends began to shun him at every gathering.
The true synonym
avoid
Same sentence, swapped: After the scandal broke, old friends began to avoid him at every gathering.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot shun is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- mock
- scold
- forgive
Where shun turns up in the game
shun is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 shun
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so shun 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 social life 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. shun carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.