Qualities
Synonyms for durable
The synonym for durable recorded in this bank is indestructible, in the sense "very long lasting". 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 durable
- indestructibleadjective, in the sense "very long lasting"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and durable carries one sense so far.
very long lasting
Less durable rocks were gradually worn away to form valleys.
The true synonym
indestructible
Same sentence, swapped: Less indestructible rocks were gradually worn away to form valleys.
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.
- stationary
- ancient
- heavy
Where durable turns up in the game
durable is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where durable is the trap
- malleableadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is workable, in the sense "capable of being shaped or hammered without breaking", and durable is on the board beside it.
- resilientadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is elastic, in the sense "able to spring back to its original shape after being deformed", and durable is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play durable
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so durable 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 qualities at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
One vocabulary, two jobs
durable is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.