Movement
Synonyms for lurch
The synonym for lurch recorded in this bank is jolt, in the sense "to move suddenly and unsteadily". 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 lurch
- joltverb, in the sense "to move suddenly and unsteadily"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and lurch carries one sense so far.
to move suddenly and unsteadily
The bus can lurch forward without warning when the driver hits the brakes.
The true synonym
jolt
Same sentence, swapped: The bus can jolt forward without warning when the driver hits the brakes.
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 lurch is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- honk
- idle
- reverse
Where lurch turns up in the game
lurch 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where lurch is the trap
- ambleverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is saunter, in the sense "to walk at a slow, relaxed pace", with lurch sitting one tile away.
Play lurch
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so lurch 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 movement words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. lurch carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.