Weather
Synonyms for downpour
The synonym for downpour recorded in this bank is cloudburst, in the sense "a sudden, very heavy fall of rain". 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 downpour
- cloudburstnoun, in the sense "a sudden, very heavy fall of rain"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and downpour carries one sense so far.
a sudden, very heavy fall of rain
A sudden downpour sent everyone scrambling for cover under the awning.
The true synonym
cloudburst
Same sentence, swapped: A sudden cloudburst sent everyone scrambling for cover under the awning.
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.
- flood
- drizzle
- hail
Where downpour turns up in the game
downpour is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 downpour is the trap
- respitenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is relief, in the sense "a short period of rest or relief from something difficult", and downpour is on the board beside it.
Play downpour
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so downpour 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 weather words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. downpour carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.