Perception
Synonyms for sallow
The synonym for sallow recorded in this bank is pasty, in the sense "of skin: having an unhealthy yellowish or pale colour". 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 sallow
- pastyadjective, in the sense "of skin: having an unhealthy yellowish or pale colour"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for sallow.
of skin: having an unhealthy yellowish or pale colour
Weeks without sunlight had left his face looking sallow and drawn.
The true synonym
pasty
Same sentence, swapped: Weeks without sunlight had left his face looking pasty and drawn.
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 sallow is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- muscular
- tanned
- freckled
Where sallow turns up in the game
sallow is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 sallow
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sallow 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 Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sallow carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.