Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for tenor
The synonym for tenor recorded in this bank is strain, in the sense "the general meaning or substance of an utterance". 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 tenor
- strainnoun, in the sense "the general meaning or substance of an utterance"
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 tenor is audited in a second meaning.
the general meaning or substance of an utterance
Although I disagreed with him, I could follow the tenor of his argument.
The true synonym
strain
Same sentence, swapped: Although I disagreed with him, I could follow the strain of his argument.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for tenor in the sentence quoted.
- implication
- semantics
- swing
Where tenor turns up in the game
tenor 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 tenor
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tenor 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 thinking and knowing 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. tenor carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.