Qualities
Synonyms for dread
Synonyms for dread: terrible, apprehension and fear. 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 dread
Interchangeable with dread in this sense
Audited under dread's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one dread carries in that sense.
- terribleadjective, in the sense "causing fear or dread or terror"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name dread as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- apprehensionapprehension is a noun in the sense "fearful expectation or anticipation"
- fearfear is a verb in the sense "be afraid or scared of"
The first group is filed under dread's own sense. The second reach dread from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
causing fear or dread or terror
The dread presence of the headmaster.
The true synonym
terrible
Same sentence, swapped: The terrible presence of the headmaster.
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.
- foreboding
- discontent
- upset
Where dread turns up in the game
dread is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 dread is the trap
- zealnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is elan, in the sense "a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)", and dread is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play dread
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dread 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 qualities at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
dread is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.