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Synonyms for brighten
The synonym for brighten recorded in this bank is lighten, in the sense "make more cheerful through the use of color". 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 brighten
- lightenverb, in the sense "make more cheerful through the use of color"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and brighten carries one sense so far.
make more cheerful through the use of color
The paint will brighten the room.
The true synonym
lighten
Same sentence, swapped: The paint will lighten the room.
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 brighten is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- clear
- darken
- reconstruct
Where brighten turns up in the game
brighten 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 brighten
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so brighten 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 change at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. brighten carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.