Communication
Synonyms for infection
The synonym for infection recorded in this bank is contagion, in the sense "the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people". 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 infection
- contagionnoun, in the sense "the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people"
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 infection is audited in a second meaning.
the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
The infection of his enthusiasm for poetry.
The true synonym
contagion
Same sentence, swapped: The contagion of his enthusiasm for poetry.
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 infection is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- display
- content
- inspiration
Where infection turns up in the game
infection is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 infection is the trap
- mutationnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is alteration, in the sense "a change in an organism's genetic material that can produce a new inheritable trait", and infection is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play infection
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so infection 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 communication words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. infection carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.