The body

Synonyms for stimulate

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineThe body

cause to be alert and energetic

A cold shower will stimulate you on a winter morning.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

brace

Same sentence, swapped: A cold shower will brace you on a winter morning.

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 stimulate as it is used in the sentence above.

hasten
sedate
unwind

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Closest first: other the body words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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