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Synonyms for sustenance

The synonym for sustenance recorded in this bank is maintenance, in the sense "the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence". 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for sustenance

maintenancenoun, in the sense "the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and sustenance carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineActions

the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence

They were in want of sustenance.

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

The true synonym

maintenance

Same sentence, swapped: They were in want of maintenance.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

pap
cuisine
cheer

Where sustenance turns up in the game

sustenance 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 sustenance

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sustenance 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. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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