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Synonyms for wake
Synonyms for wake: viewing, awaken and aftermath. 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 wake
Interchangeable with wake, one per sense
Audited under wake's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one wake carries in that sense.
- viewingnoun, in the sense "a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial"
- awakenverb, in the sense "cause to become awake or conscious"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name wake as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- aftermathaftermath is a noun in the sense "the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)"
two of these come from wake's own entries in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
There's no weeping at an Irish wake.
The true synonym
viewing
Same sentence, swapped: There's no weeping at an Irish viewing.
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 wake in the sentence quoted.
- aftermath
- backwash
- train
cause to become awake or conscious
Please wake me at 6 AM.
The true synonym
awaken
Same sentence, swapped: Please awaken me at 6 AM.
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 wake in the sentence quoted.
- ignite
- age
- land
Where wake turns up in the game
wake is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 wake is the trap
- igniteverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is light, in the sense "cause to start burning", and wake is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play wake
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wake 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 actions at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. wake carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.