Qualities
Synonyms for black
Synonyms for black: smutty, bleak, grim, shameful and sinister. 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.
The 5 synonyms for black
Interchangeable with black in this sense
Audited under black's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one black carries in that sense.
- smuttyadjective, in the sense "soiled with dirt or soot"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name black as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- bleakbleak is an adjective in the sense "offering little or no hope"
- grimgrim is an adjective in the sense "harshly ironic or sinister"
- shamefulshameful is an adjective in the sense "deserving or bringing disgrace or shame"
- sinistersinister is an adjective in the sense "stemming from evil characteristics or forces"
one of these comes from black's own entry in the bank, and four were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
soiled with dirt or soot
His shirt was black within an hour.
The true synonym
smutty
Same sentence, swapped: His shirt was smutty within an hour.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- fatal
- white
- mordant
Where black turns up in the game
black 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where black is the trap
- whiteadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is clean, in the sense "not written or printed on", and black is on the board beside it.
- whiteadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is livid, in the sense "anemic looking from illness or emotion", and black is on the board beside it.
- darkadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is benighted, in the sense "lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture", so black is there to be ruled out.
Play black
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so black 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 qualities words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
black is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.