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Synonyms for whack

The synonym for whack recorded in this bank is knock, in the sense "the act of hitting vigorously". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for whack

  • knocknoun, in the sense "the act of hitting vigorously"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and whack carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineActions

the act of hitting vigorously

He gave the table a whack.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

knock

Same sentence, swapped: He gave the table a knock.

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 whack in the sentence quoted.

  • thrust
  • boot
  • experiment

Where whack turns up in the game

whack 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 whack is the trap

  • assaynoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is check, in the sense "an appraisal of the state of affairs", with whack sitting one tile away.

Play whack

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so whack 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 wrong tile gets explained too

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. whack carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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