Nature
Synonyms for glade
The synonym for glade recorded in this bank is clearing, in the sense "an open, grassy space within a forest". 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 glade
- clearingnoun, in the sense "an open, grassy space within a forest"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for glade.
an open, grassy space within a forest
Deer grazed quietly in the glade at the forest's edge.
The true synonym
clearing
Same sentence, swapped: Deer grazed quietly in the clearing at the forest's edge.
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.
- thicket
- canopy
- hollow
Where glade turns up in the game
glade is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 glade is the trap
- bognoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is marsh, in the sense "wet spongy ground too soft to walk on easily", so glade is there to be ruled out.
Play glade
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so glade 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 nature words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. glade carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.