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Synonyms for kick
Synonyms for kick: boot and gripe. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for kick
Interchangeable with kick in this sense
Audited under kick's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one kick carries in that sense.
- bootnoun, in the sense "the act of delivering a blow with the foot"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name kick as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- gripegripe is a noun in the sense "informal terms for objecting"
one of these comes from kick's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
the act of delivering a blow with the foot
He gave the ball a powerful kick.
The true synonym
boot
Same sentence, swapped: He gave the ball a powerful boot.
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 kick is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- beef
- recoil
- knock
Where kick turns up in the game
kick 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where kick is the trap
- chargenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is mission, in the sense "a special assignment that is given to a person or group", and kick is one of the three tiles that lose.
- pleasurenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is joy, in the sense "something or someone that provides a source of happiness", with kick sitting one tile away.
- conflictnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is difference, in the sense "a disagreement or argument about something important", and kick is on the board beside it.
Play kick
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so kick reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. kick carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.