Qualities
Synonyms for blemish
The synonym for blemish recorded in this bank is defect, in the sense "a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)". 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 blemish
- defectnoun, in the sense "a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for blemish.
a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
A facial blemish.
The true synonym
defect
Same sentence, swapped: A facial defect.
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 blemish in the sentence quoted.
- semblance
- visage
- seal
Where blemish turns up in the game
blemish is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 blemish is the trap
- inadequacynoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is insufficiency, in the sense "a lack of competence", and blemish is on the board beside it.
Play blemish
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so blemish reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. blemish carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.