Social life

Synonyms for sway

Synonyms for sway: carry and rock. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 2 synonyms for sway

Interchangeable with sway in this sense

Audited under sway's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one sway carries in that sense.

carryverb, in the sense "win approval or support for"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name sway as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

rockrock is a verb in the sense "cause to move back and forth"

one of these comes from sway's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineSocial life

win approval or support for

His speech did not sway the voters.

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

The true synonym

carry

Same sentence, swapped: His speech did not carry the voters.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where sway stands in the sentence above.

shake
manipulate
prejudice

Where sway turns up in the game

sway is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where sway is the trap

rocknoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is stone, in the sense "a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter", with sway sitting one tile away.

Play sway

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sway 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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convivialadjectivejovialfriendly, lively, and favorable to good companyTreelineHas a reason line dareverbpresumetake upon oneselfTreeline dischargeverb, nouncompletecomplete or carry outTreeline2 sensesHas a reason line divideverbsplitseparate into parts or portionsTreelineHas a reason line taciturnadjectivereticentreserved and saying very little; disinclined to talkRidgelineHas a reason line tackleverbundertakeaccept as a challengeRidgelineHas a reason line testnoun, verbtrialthe act of undergoing testingFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line blessingnounapprovalthe formal act of approvingTreelineHas a reason line

One vocabulary, two jobs

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

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