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Synonyms for darkness
Synonyms for darkness: shadow and wickedness. 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 darkness
- shadownoun, in the sense "an unilluminated area"
- wickednessnoun, in the sense "absence of moral or spiritual values"
All two are filed under darkness's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
an unilluminated area
He moved off into the darkness.
The true synonym
shadow
Same sentence, swapped: He moved off into the shadow.
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 darkness is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- wickedness
- stage
- light
absence of moral or spiritual values
The powers of darkness.
The true synonym
wickedness
Same sentence, swapped: The powers of wickedness.
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 darkness is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- shadow
- demand
- comfort
Where darkness turns up in the game
darkness 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where darkness is the trap
- sadnessnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is sorrow, in the sense "the state of being sad", and darkness is on the board beside it.
Play darkness
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so darkness 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 places at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. darkness carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.