Movement
Synonyms for dart
The synonym for dart recorded in this bank is bolt, in the sense "to move suddenly and quickly in a particular direction". 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 dart
- boltverb, in the sense "to move suddenly and quickly in a particular direction"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and dart carries one sense so far.
to move suddenly and quickly in a particular direction
A rabbit will dart across the road the moment it senses danger.
The true synonym
bolt
Same sentence, swapped: A rabbit will bolt across the road the moment it senses danger.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot dart is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- wander
- crawl
- roll
Where dart turns up in the game
dart is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 dart is the trap
- traipseverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is trek, in the sense "to walk wearily or reluctantly over a distance", with dart sitting one tile away.
Play dart
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dart reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other movement words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. dart carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.