Weather
Synonyms for fog
The synonym for fog recorded in this bank is brume, in the sense "a thick, obscuring mist in the air". 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 fog
- brumenoun, in the sense "a thick, obscuring mist in the air"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and fog carries one sense so far.
a thick, obscuring mist in the air
Fog rolled in off the bay and swallowed the lighthouse whole.
The true synonym
brume
Same sentence, swapped: Brume rolled in off the bay and swallowed the lighthouse whole.
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 fog is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- smoke
- dew
- gale
Where fog turns up in the game
fog is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 fog is the trap
- fussverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is fret, in the sense "worry unnecessarily or excessively", with fog sitting one tile away.
Play fog
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fog 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 weather words at Summit, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. fog carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.