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Synonyms for crack
Synonyms for crack: pass and gap. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for crack
All two are filed under crack's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
a usually brief attempt
He took a crack at it.
crack in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The baker gave the new bread recipe a crack before the morning rush began.
- In his letter he asked for one more crack at the job before they hired someone else.
How it behaves: In this sense, crack usually appears in the construction 'a crack at (something)' as the object of verbs like take, give, or have, in an informal, conversational register.
The true synonym
pass
Same sentence, swapped: He took a pass at it.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- struggle
- battle
- best
a narrow opening
He opened the window a crack.
The true synonym
gap
Same sentence, swapped: He opened the window a gap.
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 crack is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- sally
- snap
- port
Where crack turns up in the game
crack is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in eight other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 8 puzzles where crack is the trap
- hearingnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is audience, in the sense "an opportunity to state your case and be heard", and crack is on the board beside it.
- bulgenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is swell, in the sense "a rounded part that swells outward from a surface", so crack is there to be ruled out.
- chapnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is fellow, in the sense "a boy or man", and crack is one of the three tiles that lose.
- mentionnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is reference, in the sense "a remark that calls attention to something or someone", and crack is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play crack
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so crack 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 actions words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. crack carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.