Shapes
Synonyms for silhouette
The synonym for silhouette recorded in this bank is profile, in the sense "a dark outline or shape seen against a lighter background". 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 silhouette
- profilenoun, in the sense "a dark outline or shape seen against a lighter background"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and silhouette carries one sense so far.
a dark outline or shape seen against a lighter background
Against the sunset, the mountain became a silhouette, black and featureless.
The true synonym
profile
Same sentence, swapped: Against the sunset, the mountain became a profile, black and featureless.
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 silhouette is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- reflection
- glow
- haze
Where silhouette turns up in the game
silhouette 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 silhouette
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so silhouette 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 shapes 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. silhouette carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.