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Synonyms for flake
The synonym for flake recorded in this bank is peel, in the sense "to come away from a surface in small thin pieces". 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 flake
- peelverb, in the sense "to come away from a surface in small thin pieces"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day flake is audited in a second meaning.
to come away from a surface in small thin pieces
Old paint had begun to flake off the shutters in curling strips.
The true synonym
peel
Same sentence, swapped: Old paint had begun to peel off the shutters in curling strips.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- fade
- blister
- harden
Where flake turns up in the game
flake is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 flake is the trap
- gemnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is stone, in the sense "a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry", and flake is on the board beside it.
Play flake
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so flake 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 materials at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. flake carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.