Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for clear

The synonym for clear recorded in this bank is enlighten, in the sense "make free from confusion or ambiguity". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 12 puzzles

The synonym for clear

enlightenverb, in the sense "make free from confusion or ambiguity"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for clear.

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineThinking and knowing

make free from confusion or ambiguity

Clear up the question of who is at fault.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

enlighten

Same sentence, swapped: Enlighten up the question of who is at fault.

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.

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Where clear turns up in the game

clear 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 12 other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

4 of the 12 puzzles where clear is the trap

easyadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is gentle, in the sense "marked by moderate steepness", so clear is there to be ruled out.
entireadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is full, in the sense "constituting the full quantity or extent", and clear is on the board beside it.
eyenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is heart, in the sense "an area that is approximately central within some larger region", and clear is one of the three tiles that lose.
solveverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is work, in the sense "find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of", and clear is on the board beside it.

Play clear

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so clear reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. clear carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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