Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for passion

The synonym for passion recorded in this bank is love, in the sense "any object of warm affection or devotion". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · a wrong tile in 3 puzzles

The synonym for passion

lovenoun, in the sense "any object of warm affection or devotion"

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 passion is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsThinking and knowing

any object of warm affection or devotion

He has a passion for old jazz records.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

love

Same sentence, swapped: He has a love for old jazz records.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where passion stands in the sentence above.

heat
rage
centre

Where passion turns up in the game

passion 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where passion is the trap

ragenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is cult, in the sense "an interest followed with exaggerated zeal", and passion is on the board beside it.
orgynoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is binge, in the sense "any act of immoderate indulgence", and passion is on the board beside it.
warmthnoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is warmness, in the sense "the quality of having a moderate degree of heat", and passion is on the board beside it.

Play passion

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

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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One vocabulary, two jobs

passion is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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