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Synonyms for reaction

The synonym for reaction recorded in this bank is response, in the sense "a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for reaction

responsenoun, in the sense "a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and reaction carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsActions

a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent

A bad reaction to the medicine.

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

The true synonym

response

Same sentence, swapped: A bad response to the medicine.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where reaction stands in the sentence above.

tears
breathing
judgment

Where reaction turns up in the game

reaction 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 reaction is the trap

cognitionnoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is mentation, in the sense "the mental action of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought", so reaction is there to be ruled out.

Play reaction

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

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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One vocabulary, two jobs

reaction is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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