Nature
Synonyms for dune
The synonym for dune recorded in this bank is mound, in the sense "a mound or ridge of wind-blown sand". 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 dune
- moundnoun, in the sense "a mound or ridge of wind-blown sand"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and dune carries one sense so far.
a mound or ridge of wind-blown sand
Wind sculpted the dune into a smooth ridge of sand.
The true synonym
mound
Same sentence, swapped: Wind sculpted the mound into a smooth ridge of sand.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for dune in the sentence quoted.
- cliff
- valley
- reef
Where dune turns up in the game
dune 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 dune is the trap
- ravinenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is gorge, in the sense "a deep narrow gorge cut into a hillside", so dune is there to be ruled out.
Play dune
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dune 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 nature at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. dune carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.