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Synonyms for silence
Synonyms for silence: still and muteness. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for silence
- stillverb, in the sense "cause to be quiet or not talk"
- mutenessnoun, in the sense "a refusal to speak when expected"
All two are filed under silence's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
cause to be quiet or not talk
Please silence the children in the church!
The true synonym
still
Same sentence, swapped: Please still the children in the church!
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 silence is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- burke
- quench
- stone
a refusal to speak when expected
His silence about my contribution was surprising.
The true synonym
muteness
Same sentence, swapped: His muteness about my contribution was surprising.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where silence stands in the sentence above.
- secrecy
- settle
- floor
Where silence turns up in the game
silence is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where silence is the trap
- dinnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is clamor, in the sense "a loud, overwhelming noise", and silence is one of the three tiles that lose.
- glimmernoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is glint, in the sense "a faint, unsteady light", and silence is one of the three tiles that lose.
- cacophonynoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is din, in the sense "a harsh, jarring mixture of sounds", so silence is there to be ruled out.
Play silence
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so silence reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. silence carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.