Qualities
Synonyms for smudge
The synonym for smudge recorded in this bank is spot, in the sense "a blemish made by dirt". 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 smudge
- spotnoun, in the sense "a blemish made by dirt"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and smudge carries one sense so far.
a blemish made by dirt
He had a smudge on his cheek.
The true synonym
spot
Same sentence, swapped: He had a spot on his cheek.
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.
- wart
- gouge
- reek
Where smudge turns up in the game
smudge is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where smudge is the trap
- bulgenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is swell, in the sense "a rounded part that swells outward from a surface", and smudge is one of the three tiles that lose.
- shardnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is sliver, in the sense "a sharp, thin broken piece of a hard brittle material", with smudge sitting one tile away.
- distortionnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is aberration, in the sense "a warping of an image or shape that makes it appear unnatural", and smudge is on the board beside it.
- scourverb, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is abrade, in the sense "rub hard or scrub", with smudge sitting one tile away.
Play smudge
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so smudge 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 qualities words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. smudge carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.