Social life
Synonyms for sycophant
The synonym for sycophant recorded in this bank is toady, in the sense "a person who acts obsequiously toward someone important to gain advantage". 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 sycophant
- toadynoun, in the sense "a person who acts obsequiously toward someone important to gain advantage"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for sycophant.
a person who acts obsequiously toward someone important to gain advantage
The office sycophant agreed with whatever the manager said.
The true synonym
toady
Same sentence, swapped: The office toady agreed with whatever the manager said.
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 sycophant is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- rival
- colleague
- skeptic
Where sycophant turns up in the game
sycophant 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 sycophant
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sycophant 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 Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sycophant carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.