Perception
Synonyms for murky
The synonym for murky recorded in this bank is turbid, in the sense "of liquid, air or light: dark and difficult to see through". 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 murky
- turbidadjective, in the sense "of liquid, air or light: dark and difficult to see through"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for murky.
of liquid, air or light: dark and difficult to see through
The pond water was murky after the storm stirred up the mud.
The true synonym
turbid
Same sentence, swapped: The pond water was turbid after the storm stirred up the mud.
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.
- stagnant
- shallow
- brackish
Where murky turns up in the game
murky is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 murky is the trap
- indeterminateadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is undetermined, in the sense "not precisely determined or established", with murky sitting one tile away.
- snowyadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is hoary, in the sense "grayish-white, as if covered with frost or snow", and murky is on the board beside it.
Play murky
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so murky 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 perception words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. murky carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.