Materials

Synonyms for cure

The synonym for cure recorded in this bank is vulcanize, in the sense "to harden or set a material by a chemical or physical process". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 3 puzzles

The synonym for cure

vulcanizeverb, in the sense "to harden or set a material by a chemical or physical process"

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 cure is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 4, High CampMaterials

to harden or set a material by a chemical or physical process

Rubber must cure under heat and pressure before it becomes strong enough for tires.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

vulcanize

Same sentence, swapped: Rubber must vulcanize under heat and pressure before it becomes strong enough for tires.

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 cure in the sentence quoted.

galvanize
laminate
carbonize

Where cure turns up in the game

cure is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where cure is the trap

receiveverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is get, in the sense "receive a specified treatment (abstract)", and cure is on the board beside it.
patronagenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is trade, in the sense "the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers", and cure is one of the three tiles that lose.
auspicesnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is protection, in the sense "kindly endorsement and guidance", and cure is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play cure

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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