Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for thorn
The synonym for thorn recorded in this bank is irritant, in the sense "something that causes irritation and annoyance". 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 thorn
- irritantnoun, in the sense "something that causes irritation and annoyance"
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 thorn is audited in a second meaning.
something that causes irritation and annoyance
He's a thorn in my flesh.
The true synonym
irritant
Same sentence, swapped: He's a irritant in my flesh.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- paste
- woe
- disease
Where thorn turns up in the game
thorn is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 thorn is the trap
- spinenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is backbone, in the sense "the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved", and thorn is on the board beside it.
Play thorn
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so thorn 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 thinking and knowing at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
thorn 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.