Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for burden
The synonym for burden recorded in this bank is load, in the sense "an onerous or difficult concern". 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 burden
- loadnoun, in the sense "an onerous or difficult concern"
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 burden is audited in a second meaning.
an onerous or difficult concern
The burden of responsibility.
The true synonym
load
Same sentence, swapped: The load of responsibility.
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 burden in the sentence quoted.
- core
- business
- bugaboo
Where burden turns up in the game
burden is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 burden is the trap
- corenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is nucleus, in the sense "a small group of indispensable persons or things", so burden is there to be ruled out.
- gistnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is heart, in the sense "the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience", so burden is there to be ruled out.
Play burden
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so burden 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 thinking and knowing at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. burden carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.