The body
Synonyms for cheek
The synonym for cheek recorded in this bank is nerve, in the sense "impudent boldness; nerve". 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 cheek
- nervenoun, in the sense "impudent boldness; nerve"
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 cheek is audited in a second meaning.
impudent boldness; nerve
The intern had the cheek to correct the CEO in front of the whole board.
The true synonym
nerve
Same sentence, swapped: The intern had the nerve to correct the CEO in front of the whole board.
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 cheek in the sentence quoted.
- charm
- wit
- poise
Where cheek turns up in the game
cheek 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 cheek is the trap
- foreheadnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is brow, in the sense "the part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline", and cheek is on the board beside it.
Play cheek
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cheek 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 the body words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. cheek carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.