Shapes
Synonyms for hump
The synonym for hump recorded in this bank is bump, in the sense "something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings". 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 hump
- bumpnoun, in the sense "something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and hump carries one sense so far.
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
The hump of a camel.
The true synonym
bump
Same sentence, swapped: The bump of a camel.
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 hump is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- jag
- spur
- bolt
Where hump turns up in the game
hump is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 hump is the trap
- bumpnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is blow, in the sense "an impact (as from a collision)", and hump is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play hump
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hump 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 shapes words at Treeline, 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. hump carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.