Perception
Synonyms for whet
The synonym for whet recorded in this bank is quicken, in the sense "make keen or more acute". 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 whet
- quickenverb, in the sense "make keen or more acute"
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 whet is audited in a second meaning.
make keen or more acute
Whet my appetite.
The true synonym
quicken
Same sentence, swapped: Quicken my appetite.
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 whet in the sentence quoted.
- repel
- thrill
- reinforce
Where whet turns up in the game
whet is the word under test in one puzzle, at 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 whet
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so whet reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other perception words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. whet carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.