Events
Synonyms for drip
The synonym for drip recorded in this bank is dribble, in the sense "flowing in drops". 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 drip
- dribblenoun, in the sense "flowing in drops"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and drip carries one sense so far.
flowing in drops
There's a drip through the roof.
The true synonym
dribble
Same sentence, swapped: There's a dribble through the roof.
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 drip in the sentence quoted.
- surge
- discharge
- nuisance
Where drip turns up in the game
drip 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where drip is the trap
- cascadeverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is pour, in the sense "to pour downward rapidly in a large flow", with drip sitting one tile away.
- condenseverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is concentrate, in the sense "make more concise", and drip is one of the three tiles that lose.
- flickerverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is gutter, in the sense "to shine or burn with a wavering, unsteady light", so drip is there to be ruled out.
Play drip
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so drip 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 events words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. drip carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.