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Synonyms for gleaming
The synonym for gleaming recorded in this bank is agleam, in the sense "bright with a steady but subdued shining". 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 gleaming
- agleamadjective, in the sense "bright with a steady but subdued shining"
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 gleaming is audited in a second meaning.
bright with a steady but subdued shining
The gleaming brass on the altar.
The true synonym
agleam
Same sentence, swapped: The agleam brass on the altar.
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.
- glazed
- starry
- streaming
Where gleaming turns up in the game
gleaming 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where gleaming is the trap
- glazedadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is glassed, in the sense "fitted or covered with glass", with gleaming sitting one tile away.
Play gleaming
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gleaming reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
gleaming is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.