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Synonyms for blot
The synonym for blot recorded in this bank is spot, in the sense "an act that brings discredit to the person who does it". 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 blot
- spotnoun, in the sense "an act that brings discredit to the person who does it"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day blot is audited in a second meaning.
an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
He made a huge blot on his copybook.
The true synonym
spot
Same sentence, swapped: He made a huge spot on his copybook.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- revoke
- hag
- lapse
Where blot turns up in the game
blot is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where blot is the trap
- unfurlverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is unroll, in the sense "unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state", so blot is there to be ruled out.
Play blot
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so blot reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other actions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
blot is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.