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Synonyms for cycle
Synonyms for cycle: round and oscillation. 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 cycle
- roundnoun, in the sense "an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs"
- oscillationnoun, in the sense "a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon"
Two senses of cycle, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
The never-ending cycle of the seasons.
The true synonym
round
Same sentence, swapped: The never-ending round of the seasons.
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.
- bicycle
- cps
- eternity
a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon
Each cycle of the pendulum takes exactly one second.
The true synonym
oscillation
Same sentence, swapped: Each oscillation of the pendulum takes exactly one second.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- bicycle
- cps
- sunset
Where cycle turns up in the game
cycle is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where cycle is the trap
- lineagenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is blood, in the sense "the hereditary derivation of an individual", with cycle sitting one tile away.
- rashnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is blizzard, in the sense "a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences", and cycle is one of the three tiles that lose.
- repeatnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is repetition, in the sense "an event that repeats", so cycle is there to be ruled out.
- loopverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is intertwine, in the sense "make a loop in", and cycle is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play cycle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cycle 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 time 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. cycle carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.