Weather

Synonyms for parched

The synonym for parched recorded in this bank is arid, in the sense "dried out from prolonged heat and lack of rain". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for parched

aridadjective, in the sense "dried out from prolonged heat and lack of rain"

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 parched is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, TreelineWeather

dried out from prolonged heat and lack of rain

The parched fields hadn't seen rain in over two months.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

arid

Same sentence, swapped: The arid fields hadn't seen rain in over two months.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for parched in the sentence quoted.

fertile
verdant
waterlogged

Where parched turns up in the game

parched 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where parched is the trap

sluggishadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is lethargic, in the sense "moving slowly and with little energy", with parched sitting one tile away.
verdantadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is lush, in the sense "green with lush vegetation", so parched is there to be ruled out.

Play parched

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so parched reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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