Contact and joining
Synonyms for jerk
The synonym for jerk recorded in this bank is flick, in the sense "throw or toss with a quick motion". 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 jerk
- flickverb, in the sense "throw or toss with a quick motion"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for jerk.
throw or toss with a quick motion
She saw him jerk his head toward the door.
The true synonym
flick
Same sentence, swapped: She saw him flick his head toward the door.
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.
- buck
- nose
- jam
Where jerk turns up in the game
jerk 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 jerk is the trap
- pushverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is press, in the sense "make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby", and jerk is one of the three tiles that lose.
- haulnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is draw, in the sense "the act of drawing or hauling something", and jerk is on the board beside it.
Play jerk
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so jerk 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 contact and joining is the company jerk keeps.
One vocabulary, two jobs
jerk 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.