Events
Synonyms for scream
The synonym for scream recorded in this bank is screeching, in the sense "a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry". 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 scream
- screechingnoun, in the sense "a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day scream is audited in a second meaning.
a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry
He heard the scream of the brakes.
The true synonym
screeching
Same sentence, swapped: He heard the screeching of the brakes.
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.
- riot
- chatter
- boom
Where scream turns up in the game
scream 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 scream
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so scream 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 events words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. scream carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.