Shapes
Synonyms for conical
The synonym for conical recorded in this bank is tapering, in the sense "shaped like a cone, narrowing evenly to a point". 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 conical
- taperingadjective, in the sense "shaped like a cone, narrowing evenly to a point"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and conical carries one sense so far.
shaped like a cone, narrowing evenly to a point
The volcano's peak was conical, rising to a single sharp point from a wide round base.
The true synonym
tapering
Same sentence, swapped: The volcano's peak was tapering, rising to a single sharp point from a wide round base.
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.
- smoldering
- sulfurous
- eroded
Where conical turns up in the game
conical is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play conical
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so conical 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 shapes is the company conical keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. conical carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.