Shapes
Synonyms for distortion
The synonym for distortion recorded in this bank is aberration, in the sense "a warping of an image or shape that makes it appear unnatural". 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 distortion
- aberrationnoun, in the sense "a warping of an image or shape that makes it appear unnatural"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for distortion.
a warping of an image or shape that makes it appear unnatural
Looking into the funhouse mirror, she saw her reflection twisted into a strange distortion.
The true synonym
aberration
Same sentence, swapped: Looking into the funhouse mirror, she saw her reflection twisted into a strange aberration.
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 distortion in the sentence quoted.
- glare
- smudge
- crack
Where distortion turns up in the game
distortion 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where distortion is the trap
- dispersionnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is diffusion, in the sense "the act of dispersing or diffusing something", so distortion is there to be ruled out.
Play distortion
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so distortion reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because shapes is the company distortion keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. distortion carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.