People and roles
Synonyms for whisper
The synonym for whisper recorded in this bank is murmur, in the sense "to speak very quietly or under one's breath". 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 whisper
- murmurverb, in the sense "to speak very quietly or under one's breath"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for whisper.
to speak very quietly or under one's breath
She likes to whisper secrets so no one else in the room can hear.
The true synonym
murmur
Same sentence, swapped: She likes to murmur secrets so no one else in the room can hear.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- shout
- announce
- declare
Where whisper turns up in the game
whisper 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where whisper is the trap
- sobverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is weep, in the sense "to cry noisily with convulsive gasps", and whisper is on the board beside it.
- screechverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is shriek, in the sense "to make a harsh, high-pitched, piercing sound", with whisper sitting one tile away.
Play whisper
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so whisper 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 people and roles words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. whisper carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.