Nature
Synonyms for gnarled
The synonym for gnarled recorded in this bank is twisted, in the sense "knotted, rough, and twisted, especially from age". 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 gnarled
- twistedadjective, in the sense "knotted, rough, and twisted, especially from age"
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 gnarled is audited in a second meaning.
knotted, rough, and twisted, especially from age
An old, gnarled oak stood at the edge of the property.
The true synonym
twisted
Same sentence, swapped: An old, twisted oak stood at the edge of the property.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for gnarled in the sentence quoted.
- towering
- leafy
- hollow
Where gnarled turns up in the game
gnarled is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play gnarled
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gnarled 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 nature at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. gnarled carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.