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Synonyms for fissure

The synonym for fissure recorded in this bank is rift, in the sense "a narrow crack or split, especially in rock". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for fissure

riftnoun, in the sense "a narrow crack or split, especially in rock"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day fissure is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineShapes

a narrow crack or split, especially in rock

A fissure had opened in the canyon wall, splitting the rock into two jagged halves.

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The true synonym

rift

Same sentence, swapped: A rift had opened in the canyon wall, splitting the rock into two jagged halves.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot fissure is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

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Where fissure turns up in the game

fissure 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where fissure is the trap

sagnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is droop, in the sense "a shape that sags", and fissure is on the board beside it.

Play fissure

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fissure reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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