Nature
Synonyms for bloom
The synonym for bloom recorded in this bank is blossom, in the sense "to produce flowers; to blossom". 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 bloom
- blossomverb, in the sense "to produce flowers; to blossom"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and bloom carries one sense so far.
to produce flowers; to blossom
The cherry trees bloom for only two weeks each spring.
The true synonym
blossom
Same sentence, swapped: The cherry trees blossom for only two weeks each spring.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for bloom in the sentence quoted.
- ripen
- sprout
- fade
Where bloom turns up in the game
bloom is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where bloom is the trap
- wiltverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is droop, in the sense "to lose freshness and droop, as a plant does from heat or lack of water", so bloom is there to be ruled out.
- witherverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is shrivel, in the sense "to become dry, shriveled, and lifeless", and bloom is on the board beside it.
- peaknoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is apex, in the sense "the highest point (of something)", and bloom is on the board beside it.
Play bloom
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bloom reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from nature at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. bloom carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.