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Synonyms for pump
The synonym for pump recorded in this bank is bellows, in the sense "a hand-worked device that forces air into a fire". 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 pump
- bellowsnoun, in the sense "a hand-worked device that forces air into a fire"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and pump carries one sense so far.
a hand-worked device that forces air into a fire
He worked the leather pump, forcing air into the dying embers until they glowed.
The true synonym
bellows
Same sentence, swapped: He worked the leather bellows, forcing air into the dying embers until they glowed.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- poker
- grate
- flue
Where pump turns up in the game
pump is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 pump
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pump 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 objects at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. pump carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.