The body
Synonyms for pulse
The synonym for pulse recorded in this bank is heartbeat, in the sense "the rhythmic beat of blood through the arteries, felt as a throb". 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 pulse
- heartbeatnoun, in the sense "the rhythmic beat of blood through the arteries, felt as a throb"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for pulse.
the rhythmic beat of blood through the arteries, felt as a throb
The nurse checked his pulse at the wrist.
The true synonym
heartbeat
Same sentence, swapped: The nurse checked his heartbeat at the wrist.
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.
- rhythm
- tempo
- vein
Where pulse turns up in the game
pulse 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where pulse is the trap
- repeatnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is repetition, in the sense "an event that repeats", and pulse is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play pulse
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pulse 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 the body is the company pulse keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. pulse carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.