Communication
Synonyms for curse
Synonyms for curse: jinx and bane. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for curse
Interchangeable with curse in this sense
Audited under curse's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one curse carries in that sense.
- jinxnoun, in the sense "an evil spell"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name curse as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- banebane is a noun in the sense "something causing misery or death"
The first group is filed under curse's own sense. The second reaches curse from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
an evil spell
A witch put a curse on his whole family.
The true synonym
jinx
Same sentence, swapped: A witch put a jinx on his whole family.
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.
- oath
- bane
- incantation
Where curse turns up in the game
curse 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 curse
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so curse 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 communication 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. curse carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.