People and roles
Synonyms for bum
The synonym for bum recorded in this bank is loafer, in the sense "person who does no work". 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 bum
- loafernoun, in the sense "person who does no work"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for bum.
person who does no work
A lazy bum.
The true synonym
loafer
Same sentence, swapped: A lazy loafer.
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.
- rear
- rat
- striker
Where bum turns up in the game
bum 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 bum is the trap
- lazyadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is indolent, in the sense "disinclined to work or exertion", and bum is on the board beside it.
Play bum
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bum 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 people and roles at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. bum carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.