Weather
Synonyms for haze
The synonym for haze recorded in this bank is murk, in the sense "a dim, hazy dullness in the air that obscures view". 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 haze
- murknoun, in the sense "a dim, hazy dullness in the air that obscures view"
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 haze is audited in a second meaning.
a dim, hazy dullness in the air that obscures view
Haze hung over the valley, blurring the outline of the distant hills.
The true synonym
murk
Same sentence, swapped: Murk hung over the valley, blurring the outline of the distant hills.
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 haze in the sentence quoted.
- glare
- sleet
- gale
Where haze turns up in the game
haze is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 haze is the trap
- silhouettenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is profile, in the sense "a dark outline or shape seen against a lighter background", and haze is on the board beside it.
Play haze
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so haze 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 High Camp, 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. haze carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.