The body
Synonyms for sweat
Synonyms for sweat: perspiration, perspire and effort. 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 3 synonyms for sweat
Interchangeable with sweat, one per sense
Audited under sweat's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one sweat carries in that sense.
- perspirationnoun, in the sense "salty fluid secreted by sweat glands"
- perspireverb, in the sense "excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name sweat as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- efforteffort is a noun in the sense "use of physical or mental energy"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under sweat and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
Sweat poured off his brow.
The true synonym
perspiration
Same sentence, swapped: Perspiration poured off his brow.
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 sweat is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- effort
- stew
- spit
excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
Exercise makes one sweat.
The true synonym
perspire
Same sentence, swapped: Exercise makes one perspire.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for sweat in the sentence quoted.
- pee
- cast
- tax
Where sweat turns up in the game
sweat is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 4, High Camp. 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 sweat
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sweat reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sweat carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.