Qualities
Synonyms for rise
Synonyms for rise: hike, rising and advance. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for rise
Interchangeable with rise, one per sense
Audited under rise's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one rise carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name rise as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- advanceadvance is a noun in the sense "increase in price or value"
The first group is filed under rise's own senses. The second reaches rise from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
an increase in cost
They asked for a 10% rise in rates.
The true synonym
hike
Same sentence, swapped: They asked for a 10% hike in rates.
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 rise in the sentence quoted.
- climb
- rising
- supplement
a movement upward
They cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon.
The true synonym
rising
Same sentence, swapped: They cheered the rising of the hot-air balloon.
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 rise in the sentence quoted.
- lift
- raise
- fall
Where rise turns up in the game
rise is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where rise is the trap
- assumeverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is take, in the sense "take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect", with rise sitting one tile away.
- hikenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is tramp, in the sense "a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure", and rise is on the board beside it.
- traceverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is retrace, in the sense "to go back over again", and rise is on the board beside it.
- liftnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is facelift, in the sense "plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face", and rise is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play rise
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so rise reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. rise carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.