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Synonyms for snub

The synonym for snub recorded in this bank is cut, in the sense "a refusal to recognize someone you know". 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 4, High Camp · 1 sense · noun · a wrong tile in 5 puzzles

The synonym for snub

cutnoun, in the sense "a refusal to recognize someone you know"

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 snub is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 4, High CampActions

a refusal to recognize someone you know

The snub was clearly intentional.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

cut

Same sentence, swapped: The cut was clearly intentional.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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Where snub turns up in the game

snub is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 snub is the trap

hinderadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is back, in the sense "located at or near the back of an animal", and snub is on the board beside it.
pamperverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is baby, in the sense "treat with excessive indulgence", so snub is there to be ruled out.
repelverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is drive, in the sense "cause to move back by force or influence", and snub is on the board beside it.
shearedadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is shorn, in the sense "having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers", and snub is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play snub

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so snub 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. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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One vocabulary, two jobs

snub is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 5. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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