People and roles
Synonyms for terror
The synonym for terror recorded in this bank is threat, in the sense "a person who inspires fear or dread". 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 terror
- threatnoun, in the sense "a person who inspires fear or dread"
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 terror is audited in a second meaning.
a person who inspires fear or dread
He was the terror of the neighborhood.
The true synonym
threat
Same sentence, swapped: He was the threat of the neighborhood.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- ram
- candidate
- suspect
Where terror turns up in the game
terror 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where terror is the trap
- threatnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is menace, in the sense "something that is a source of danger", and terror is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play terror
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so terror 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 people and roles at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
terror is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.