Food and drink
Synonyms for bolt
Synonyms for bolt: gobble, dart and dash. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for bolt
Interchangeable with bolt in this sense
Audited under bolt's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one bolt carries in that sense.
- gobbleverb, in the sense "eat hastily without proper chewing"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name bolt as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
one of these comes from bolt's own entry in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
eat hastily without proper chewing
Don't bolt your food!
The true synonym
gobble
Same sentence, swapped: Don't gobble your food!
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 bolt is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- abscond
- fare
- peck
Where bolt turns up in the game
bolt 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 five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where bolt is the trap
- hingenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is joint, in the sense "a jointed device that allows a door or lid to swing open and shut", and bolt is on the board beside it.
- dashnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is style, in the sense "distinctive and stylish elegance", with bolt sitting one tile away.
- humpnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is bump, in the sense "something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings", so bolt is there to be ruled out.
- barriernoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is roadblock, in the sense "any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective", and bolt is on the board beside it.
Play bolt
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bolt 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 food and drink at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. bolt carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.