Contact and joining
Synonyms for jam
Synonyms for jam: crush and block. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for jam
Interchangeable with jam in this sense
Audited under jam's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one jam carries in that sense.
- crushverb, in the sense "crush or bruise"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name jam as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- blockblock is a verb in the sense "interfere with or prevent the reception of signals"
one of these comes from jam's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
crush or bruise
Jam a toe.
The true synonym
crush
Same sentence, swapped: Crush a toe.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- pile
- bunch
- spot
Where jam turns up in the game
jam 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 five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where jam is the trap
- ditchverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is trench, in the sense "cut a trench in, as for drainage", and jam is on the board beside it.
- jerkverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is flick, in the sense "throw or toss with a quick motion", and jam is on the board beside it.
- pauseverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is break, in the sense "cease an action temporarily", and jam is on the board beside it.
- stressnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is strain, in the sense "difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension", and jam is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play jam
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so jam 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 contact and joining words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
jam is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 5. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.