Processes
Synonyms for flowering
The synonym for flowering recorded in this bank is unfolding, in the sense "a developmental process". 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 flowering
- unfoldingnoun, in the sense "a developmental process"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and flowering carries one sense so far.
a developmental process
The flowering of antebellum culture.
The true synonym
unfolding
Same sentence, swapped: The unfolding of antebellum culture.
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.
- deepening
- budding
- piping
Where flowering turns up in the game
flowering 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 flowering is the trap
- floridadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is flamboyant, in the sense "elaborately or excessively ornamented", so flowering is there to be ruled out.
- youngadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is untested, in the sense "not tried or tested by experience", so flowering is there to be ruled out.
Play flowering
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so flowering 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 processes at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. flowering carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.