Tough verbal analogy. Can you solve it?

There it is. I'll congratulate the solver upon discovering the solution.

Hint: the answer is not a one-, two-, three-, or four-letter solution.

Good luck.

 

"wet" is a three-letter solution - which is incorrect. The hint stated that one-letter, two-letter, three-letter, and four-letter answers are not correct.

Try as many times as you like.

 

"pale", "pallid" and "drenched" are not solutions.

It's a tough analogy. ;)

 

"wrinkle" and "cancer" are not solutions.

 

"angle" is not a solution.

This is not your everyday analogy. May have to resort to thinking outside the box...

 

"clothes" is not a solution.

 

The only hint I have provided is that the solution is not a one-letter, two-letter, three-letter, or four-letter (proposed) solution.

I leave open the possibility of a better alternative answer, but I assure you that THE solution to this problem is extremely difficult. I'd say an IQ above Mensa level is required at minimum to find it.

 

I agree, which is why I thought some might like the challenge and fun of this humble puzzle.

"bleach" and "arctan" are not solutions.

 

"shine", "bathing", "sunshine", "sunbathing" are not solutions.
"coronal", "solar", "flare", "coronal rain", and "solar flare" are not solutions.

Hint 2: the solution does not have spaces between separate values. I.e., if a word is a string of symbols, then the solution cannot be multiple separate strings.