The body
Synonyms for brain
The synonym for brain recorded in this bank is mind, in the sense "the mind, as the seat of thought and judgment". 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 brain
- mindnoun, in the sense "the mind, as the seat of thought and judgment"
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 brain is audited in a second meaning.
the mind, as the seat of thought and judgment
Use your brain before you make a decision like that.
The true synonym
mind
Same sentence, swapped: Use your mind before you make a decision like that.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- heart
- nerve
- will
Where brain turns up in the game
brain is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 brain is the trap
- geniusnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is flair, in the sense "a natural talent", so brain is there to be ruled out.
Play brain
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so brain 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 the body at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. brain carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.