Qualities
Synonyms for brilliance
The synonym for brilliance recorded in this bank is grandeur, in the sense "the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand". 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 brilliance
- grandeurnoun, in the sense "the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for brilliance.
the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
The brilliance of the palace ballroom left them speechless.
The true synonym
grandeur
Same sentence, swapped: The grandeur of the palace ballroom left them speechless.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where brilliance stands in the sentence above.
- glare
- genius
- delicacy
Where brilliance turns up in the game
brilliance 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where brilliance is the trap
- glarenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is spotlight, in the sense "a focus of public attention", and brilliance is one of the three tiles that lose.
- halonoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is ring, in the sense "a toroidal shape", with brilliance sitting one tile away.
- witsnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is marbles, in the sense "the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception", and brilliance is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play brilliance
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so brilliance reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company brilliance keeps.
One vocabulary, two jobs
brilliance 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.