Emotions
Synonyms for scary
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
provoking fear or terror
A scary movie.
The true synonym
chilling
Same sentence, swapped: A chilling movie.
Close but different
These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for scary as it is used in the sentence above.
- shy
- frightened
- nervous
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Closest first: other emotions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
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