Qualities
Synonyms for swaggering
The synonym for swaggering recorded in this bank is overbearing, in the sense "having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy". 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 swaggering
- overbearingadjective, in the sense "having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for swaggering.
having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
His swaggering manner annoyed everyone in the office.
The true synonym
overbearing
Same sentence, swapped: His overbearing manner annoyed everyone in the office.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where swaggering stands in the sentence above.
- swashbuckling
- brassy
- rollicking
Where swaggering turns up in the game
swaggering 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where swaggering is the trap
- barefacedadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is bald, in the sense "with no effort to conceal", so swaggering is there to be ruled out.
- boisterousadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is knockabout, in the sense "full of rough and exuberant animal spirits", so swaggering is there to be ruled out.
Play swaggering
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so swaggering 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 qualities words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
swaggering is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.