Animals
Synonyms for pounce
The synonym for pounce recorded in this bank is spring, in the sense "to spring or swoop suddenly to seize something". 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 pounce
- springverb, in the sense "to spring or swoop suddenly to seize something"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for pounce.
to spring or swoop suddenly to seize something
The cat crouched, ready to pounce on the ball of yarn without warning.
The true synonym
spring
Same sentence, swapped: The cat crouched, ready to spring on the ball of yarn without warning.
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 pounce is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- doze
- graze
- nest
Where pounce turns up in the game
pounce is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play pounce
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pounce 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 animals is the company pounce keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. pounce carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.