Qualities
Synonyms for emphasis
Synonyms for emphasis: vehemence and stress. 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 emphasis
Interchangeable with emphasis in this sense
Audited under emphasis's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one emphasis carries in that sense.
- vehemencenoun, in the sense "intensity or forcefulness of expression"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name emphasis as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- stressstress is a noun in the sense "the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)"
The first group is filed under emphasis's own sense. The second reaches emphasis from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
intensity or forcefulness of expression
His emphasis on civil rights.
The true synonym
vehemence
Same sentence, swapped: His vehemence on civil rights.
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.
- badness
- top
- colon
Where emphasis turns up in the game
emphasis is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where emphasis is the trap
- violencenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is fury, in the sense "the property of being wild or turbulent", so emphasis is there to be ruled out.
- accentnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is dialect, in the sense "the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people", and emphasis is on the board beside it.
Play emphasis
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so emphasis 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 qualities is the company emphasis keeps.
The same bank, read from both sides
emphasis is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.