Movement
Synonyms for orbit
The synonym for orbit recorded in this bank is revolve, in the sense "move in an orbit". 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 orbit
- revolveverb, in the sense "move in an orbit"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day orbit is audited in a second meaning.
move in an orbit
Electrons orbit the nucleus.
The true synonym
revolve
Same sentence, swapped: Electrons revolve the nucleus.
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 orbit is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- loop
- troll
- bubble
Where orbit turns up in the game
orbit 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where orbit is the trap
- settingnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is background, in the sense "the state of the environment in which a situation exists", and orbit is one of the three tiles that lose.
- trajectorynoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is course, in the sense "the curved path followed by a moving object", so orbit is there to be ruled out.
- depthnoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is deepness, in the sense "the extent downward or backward or inward", so orbit is there to be ruled out.
Play orbit
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so orbit 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 movement at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. orbit carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.