Events
Synonyms for knock
Synonyms for knock: bang and whack. 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 knock
Interchangeable with knock in this sense
Audited under knock's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one knock carries in that sense.
- bangnoun, in the sense "a vigorous blow"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name knock as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- whackwhack is a noun in the sense "the act of hitting vigorously"
one of these comes from knock'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.
a vigorous blow
The sudden knock floored him.
The true synonym
bang
Same sentence, swapped: The sudden bang floored him.
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.
- roast
- whang
- shock
Where knock turns up in the game
knock is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 knock is the trap
- disasternoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is tragedy, in the sense "an event resulting in great loss and misfortune", with knock sitting one tile away.
- kicknoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is boot, in the sense "the act of delivering a blow with the foot", and knock is on the board beside it.
- blamenoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is incrimination, in the sense "an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed", with knock sitting one tile away.
Play knock
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so knock 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 events words at Foothills, 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. knock carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.