Communication

Synonyms for inflection

The synonym for inflection recorded in this bank is intonation, in the sense "a change in the pitch or tone of the voice while speaking". 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The synonym for inflection

intonationnoun, in the sense "a change in the pitch or tone of the voice while speaking"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for inflection.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineCommunication

a change in the pitch or tone of the voice while speaking

A rising inflection at the end of the sentence made her statement sound like a question.

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The true synonym

intonation

Same sentence, swapped: A rising intonation at the end of the sentence made her statement sound like a question.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

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Where inflection turns up in the game

inflection is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play inflection

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

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