Objects
Synonyms for covert
The synonym for covert recorded in this bank is screen, in the sense "a covering that serves to conceal or shelter 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 covert
- screennoun, in the sense "a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and covert carries one sense so far.
a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
The brush provided a covert for game.
The true synonym
screen
Same sentence, swapped: The brush provided a screen for game.
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.
- flap
- wrapping
- feather
Where covert turns up in the game
covert 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 covert is the trap
- virtualadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is practical, in the sense "being actually such in almost every respect", and covert is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play covert
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so covert 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 objects at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. covert carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.