Nature
Synonyms for bog
The synonym for bog recorded in this bank is marsh, in the sense "wet spongy ground too soft to walk on easily". 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 bog
- marshnoun, in the sense "wet spongy ground too soft to walk on easily"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and bog carries one sense so far.
wet spongy ground too soft to walk on easily
Their boots sank deep into the bog as they crossed the moor.
The true synonym
marsh
Same sentence, swapped: Their boots sank deep into the marsh as they crossed the moor.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot bog is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- desert
- prairie
- glade
Where bog turns up in the game
bog 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where bog is the trap
- quenchverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is extinguish, in the sense "put out, as of fires, flames, or lights", and bog is on the board beside it.
- crawfishverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is retreat, in the sense "make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity", with bog sitting one tile away.
Play bog
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bog reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because nature is the company bog keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. bog carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.