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Synonyms for haunting

The synonym for haunting recorded in this bank is persistent, in the sense "continually recurring to the mind". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for haunting

persistentadjective, in the sense "continually recurring to the mind"

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 haunting is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, Treeline

continually recurring to the mind

A haunting memory that returned to him for years.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

persistent

Same sentence, swapped: A persistent memory that returned to him for years.

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.

periodic
ubiquitous
cyclical

Where haunting turns up in the game

haunting 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where haunting is the trap

continuousadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is uninterrupted, in the sense "continuing in time or space without interruption", so haunting is there to be ruled out.

Play haunting

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so haunting reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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The same bank, read from both sides

haunting 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.

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