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Synonyms for power

Synonyms for power: electricity and force. 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.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 2 senses · noun · 2 reason lines · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for power

  • electricitynoun, in the sense "energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor"
  • forcenoun, in the sense "one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority"

Each of these belongs to a different sense of power, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.

Sense 1 of 2nounTier 1, FoothillsNature

energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor

The power went out around midnight.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

electricity

Same sentence, swapped: The electricity went out around midnight.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for power in the sentence quoted.

  • office
  • king
  • heat
Sense 2 of 2nounTier 1, FoothillsPeople and roles

one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

The mysterious presence of an evil power.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

force

Same sentence, swapped: The mysterious presence of an evil force.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for power in the sentence quoted.

  • office
  • king
  • agent

Where power turns up in the game

power is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. 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 power is the trap

  • meetverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is fit, in the sense "fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction", and power is one of the three tiles that lose.
  • truthnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is accuracy, in the sense "the quality of being near to the true value", and power is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play power

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so power reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. power carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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