States and conditions
Synonyms for boon
The synonym for boon recorded in this bank is blessing, in the sense "a desirable state". 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 boon
- blessingnoun, in the sense "a desirable state"
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 boon is audited in a second meaning.
a desirable state
A spanking breeze is a boon to sailors.
The true synonym
blessing
Same sentence, swapped: A spanking breeze is a blessing to sailors.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- prosperity
- jolly
- gay
Where boon turns up in the game
boon 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 boon is the trap
- blessingnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is approval, in the sense "the formal act of approving", so boon is there to be ruled out.
Play boon
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so boon 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 states and conditions is the company boon keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. boon carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.