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Synonyms for boulder

The synonym for boulder recorded in this bank is rock, in the sense "a large detached rock". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 3 puzzles

The synonym for boulder

rocknoun, in the sense "a large detached rock"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for boulder.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsNature

a large detached rock

Hikers rested on a flat boulder beside the trail.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

rock

Same sentence, swapped: Hikers rested on a flat rock beside the trail.

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 boulder in the sentence quoted.

pebble
sand
cliff

Where boulder turns up in the game

boulder 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 boulder is the trap

pebblenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is stone, in the sense "a small smooth stone", with boulder sitting one tile away.
fissurenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is rift, in the sense "a narrow crack or split, especially in rock", and boulder is on the board beside it.
gravelnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is shingle, in the sense "small loose stones and pebbles", and boulder is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play boulder

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so boulder reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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