Time
Synonyms for dawn
The synonym for dawn recorded in this bank is morning, in the sense "the first light of day". 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 dawn
- morningnoun, in the sense "the first light of day"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and dawn carries one sense so far.
the first light of day
We got up before dawn.
The true synonym
morning
Same sentence, swapped: We got up before morning.
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.
- sunset
- midnight
- noon
Where dawn turns up in the game
dawn 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 dawn is the trap
- morningnoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is forenoon, in the sense "the time period between dawn and noon", and dawn is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play dawn
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dawn 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 Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. dawn carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.