Events
Synonyms for onset
The synonym for onset recorded in this bank is oncoming, in the sense "the beginning or early stages". 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 onset
- oncomingnoun, in the sense "the beginning or early stages"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for onset.
the beginning or early stages
The onset of pneumonia.
The true synonym
oncoming
Same sentence, swapped: The oncoming of pneumonia.
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.
- onslaught
- opener
- morning
Where onset turns up in the game
onset is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 onset is the trap
- attacknoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is approach, in the sense "ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation", so onset is there to be ruled out.
Play onset
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so onset reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because events is the company onset keeps.
One vocabulary, two jobs
onset 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.