Word Chain Level 488 Answers
The full answer is BRAIN → FREEZE → FRAME → RATE → …, with a definition for every word. This chain is about the game average of 6.8 words.
Level 488 — 6 Words
Read it left to right: every neighbouring pair makes a compound or a phrase. More chains are in levels 451–500.
Why Each Word Follows the Last
Each pair below is the compound or phrase that joins two neighbours. Spotting one usually gives you the next.
What Each Word Means
Useful when a link looks wrong: a word in a chain is often being used in its second or third sense rather than the obvious one.
The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.
A period of intensely cold weather.
To strengthen; refresh; support.
A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that falls from a source of liquid.
Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles). Other Levels Jump to a few of the next or previous levels in Word Chain. Previous Levels Level 485 Level 486 Level 487 Next Levels Level 489