States and conditions
Synonyms for fierce
Synonyms for fierce: rough and furious. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for fierce
Interchangeable with fierce in this sense
Audited under fierce's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one fierce carries in that sense.
- roughadjective, in the sense "violently agitated and turbulent"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name fierce as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- furiousfurious is an adjective in the sense "marked by extreme and violent energy"
The first group is filed under fierce's own sense. The second reaches fierce from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
violently agitated and turbulent
The fierce seas tossed the little boat about.
The true synonym
rough
Same sentence, swapped: The rough seas tossed the little boat about.
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.
- tearing
- hostile
- howling
Where fierce turns up in the game
fierce is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 fierce is the trap
- roughadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is rocky, in the sense "full of hardship or trials", so fierce is there to be ruled out.
- unconscionableadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is conscienceless, in the sense "lacking a conscience", with fierce sitting one tile away.
Play fierce
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fierce 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 states and conditions words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
fierce 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.