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Synonyms for cutting
Synonyms for cutting: keen, thinning and stinging. 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 3 synonyms for cutting
Interchangeable with cutting, one per sense
Audited under cutting's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one cutting carries in that sense.
- keenadjective, in the sense "painful as if caused by a sharp instrument"
- thinningnoun, in the sense "the act of diluting something"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name cutting as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- stingingstinging is an adjective in the sense "harsh or hurtful in tone or character"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under cutting and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
A cutting wind.
The true synonym
keen
Same sentence, swapped: A keen wind.
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.
- impressive
- sharing
- subject
the act of diluting something
The cutting of whiskey with water.
The true synonym
thinning
Same sentence, swapped: The thinning of whiskey with water.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where cutting stands in the sentence above.
- slip
- carving
- object
Where cutting turns up in the game
cutting 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 five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where cutting is the trap
- slipnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is trip, in the sense "an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall", and cutting is on the board beside it.
- violentadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is wild, in the sense "intensely vivid or loud", with cutting sitting one tile away.
- rawadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is crude, in the sense "not processed or subjected to analysis", and cutting is on the board beside it.
- annualadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is yearly, in the sense "occurring or payable every year", with cutting sitting one tile away.
Play cutting
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cutting 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 actions at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
One vocabulary, two jobs
cutting is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 5. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.