Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for inkling
The synonym for inkling recorded in this bank is glimmer, in the sense "a slight suggestion or vague understanding". 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 inkling
- glimmernoun, in the sense "a slight suggestion or vague understanding"
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 inkling is audited in a second meaning.
a slight suggestion or vague understanding
He had no inkling what was about to happen.
The true synonym
glimmer
Same sentence, swapped: He had no glimmer what was about to happen.
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.
- taint
- infusion
- seasoning
Where inkling turns up in the game
inkling 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 inkling
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so inkling reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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