Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for grief
The synonym for grief recorded in this bank is sorrow, in the sense "something that causes great unhappiness". 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 grief
- sorrownoun, in the sense "something that causes great unhappiness"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for grief.
something that causes great unhappiness
Her death was a great grief to John.
The true synonym
sorrow
Same sentence, swapped: Her death was a great sorrow to John.
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.
- headache
- nuisance
- concern
Where grief turns up in the game
grief is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where grief is the trap
Play grief
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so grief reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because thinking and knowing is the company grief keeps.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
grief is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.