Perception
Synonyms for flicker
The synonym for flicker recorded in this bank is gutter, in the sense "to shine or burn with a wavering, unsteady light". 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 flicker
- gutterverb, in the sense "to shine or burn with a wavering, unsteady light"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for flicker.
to shine or burn with a wavering, unsteady light
The candle begins to flicker in the draft just before it goes out.
The true synonym
gutter
Same sentence, swapped: The candle begins to gutter in the draft just before it goes out.
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.
- melt
- drip
- harden
Where flicker turns up in the game
flicker is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 flicker is the trap
- backfireverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is backlash, in the sense "come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect", with flicker sitting one tile away.
Play flicker
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so flicker 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 perception at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. flicker carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.