The body
Synonyms for gargle
The synonym for gargle recorded in this bank is rinse, in the sense "rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash". 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 gargle
- rinseverb, in the sense "rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for gargle.
rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash
Gargle with this liquid.
The true synonym
rinse
Same sentence, swapped: Rinse with this liquid.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot gargle is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- hush
- guzzle
- swill
Where gargle turns up in the game
gargle 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 gargle is the trap
- swallowverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is ingest, in the sense "to move food or drink from the mouth down the throat into the stomach", so gargle is there to be ruled out.
Play gargle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gargle 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 the body 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. gargle carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.