Social life
Synonyms for backfire
The synonym for backfire recorded in this bank is backlash, in the sense "come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect". 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 backfire
- backlashverb, in the sense "come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect"
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 backfire is audited in a second meaning.
come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect
Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble.
The true synonym
backlash
Same sentence, swapped: Your comments may backlash and cause you a lot of trouble.
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 backfire is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- befall
- coincide
- flicker
Where backfire turns up in the game
backfire 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 backfire
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so backfire 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.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. backfire carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.