States and conditions
Synonyms for scare
The synonym for scare recorded in this bank is panic, in the sense "sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events". 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 scare
- panicnoun, in the sense "sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for scare.
sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
A bomb scare led them to evacuate the building.
The true synonym
panic
Same sentence, swapped: A bomb panic led them to evacuate the building.
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 scare is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- hypochondria
- shock
- shake
Where scare turns up in the game
scare is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 scare
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so scare 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 states and conditions is the company scare keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. scare carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.