Emotions
Synonyms for qualm
The synonym for qualm recorded in this bank is misgiving, in the sense "an uneasy feeling of doubt about whether an action is right". 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 qualm
- misgivingnoun, in the sense "an uneasy feeling of doubt about whether an action is right"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and qualm carries one sense so far.
an uneasy feeling of doubt about whether an action is right
He felt a qualm about lying to his best friend.
The true synonym
misgiving
Same sentence, swapped: He felt a misgiving about lying to his best friend.
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 qualm is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- memory
- habit
- opinion
Where qualm turns up in the game
qualm is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play qualm
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so qualm 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 ring widens as it goes, from emotions at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. qualm carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.