Emotions
Synonyms for frisson
The synonym for frisson recorded in this bank is chill, in the sense "an almost pleasurable sensation of fright". 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 frisson
- chillnoun, in the sense "an almost pleasurable sensation of fright"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for frisson.
an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
A frisson of surprise shot through him.
The true synonym
chill
Same sentence, swapped: A chill of surprise shot through him.
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 frisson in the sentence quoted.
- consternation
- timidity
- dismay
Where frisson turns up in the game
frisson is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play frisson
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so frisson 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 emotions words at High Camp, 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. frisson carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.