States and conditions
Synonyms for aching
The synonym for aching recorded in this bank is achy, in the sense "causing a dull and steady pain". 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 aching
- achyadjective, in the sense "causing a dull and steady pain"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and aching carries one sense so far.
causing a dull and steady pain
My aching head.
The true synonym
achy
Same sentence, swapped: My achy head.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where aching stands in the sentence above.
- chilling
- shivering
- suffering
Where aching turns up in the game
aching 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where aching is the trap
- pangnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is sting, in the sense "a mental pain or distress", and aching is on the board beside it.
Play aching
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so aching reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because states and conditions is the company aching keeps.
The same bank, read from both sides
aching 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.