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Synonyms for burning
The synonym for burning recorded in this bank is combustion, in the sense "the act of burning something". 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 burning
- combustionnoun, in the sense "the act of burning something"
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 burning is audited in a second meaning.
the act of burning something
The burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance.
The true synonym
combustion
Same sentence, swapped: The combustion of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance.
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.
- electrocution
- connection
- damage
Where burning turns up in the game
burning 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 burning is the trap
- angryadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is wild, in the sense "as if showing violent anger", and burning is on the board beside it.
- connectionnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is joining, in the sense "the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)", so burning is there to be ruled out.
- cryingadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is gross, in the sense "conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible", so burning is there to be ruled out.
- explosionnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is burst, in the sense "the act of exploding or bursting", and burning is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play burning
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so burning reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other actions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. burning carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.