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Synonyms for leak
The synonym for leak recorded in this bank is escape, in the sense "the discharge of a fluid from some container". 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 leak
- escapenoun, in the sense "the discharge of a fluid from some container"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and leak carries one sense so far.
the discharge of a fluid from some container
A slow leak of gas from the cracked pipe.
The true synonym
escape
Same sentence, swapped: A slow escape of gas from the cracked pipe.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where leak stands in the sentence above.
- wetting
- jet
- chap
Where leak turns up in the game
leak 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 leak is the trap
- escapenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is dodging, in the sense "nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do", and leak is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play leak
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so leak 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 events at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
One vocabulary, two jobs
leak is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.