Contact and joining
Synonyms for cushion
The synonym for cushion recorded in this bank is buffer, in the sense "protect from impact". 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 cushion
- bufferverb, in the sense "protect from impact"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for cushion.
protect from impact
Cushion the blow.
The true synonym
buffer
Same sentence, swapped: Buffer the blow.
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.
- qualify
- specialize
- dull
Where cushion turns up in the game
cushion 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where cushion is the trap
- shocknoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is blow, in the sense "an unpleasant or disappointing surprise", so cushion is there to be ruled out.
- shocknoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is impact, in the sense "the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat", so cushion is there to be ruled out.
Play cushion
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cushion 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 contact and joining 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. cushion carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.