States and conditions
Synonyms for shaking
The synonym for shaking recorded in this bank is trembling, in the sense "a shaky motion". 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 shaking
- tremblingnoun, in the sense "a shaky motion"
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 shaking is audited in a second meaning.
a shaky motion
The shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe.
The true synonym
trembling
Same sentence, swapped: The trembling of his fingers as he lit his pipe.
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 shaking is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- flow
- precession
- thick
Where shaking turns up in the game
shaking is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where shaking is the trap
- flownoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is stream, in the sense "something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously", with shaking sitting one tile away.
- chokingnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is strangulation, in the sense "the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe", and shaking is on the board beside it.
Play shaking
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so shaking 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 states and conditions at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. shaking carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.