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Synonyms for scorched
The synonym for scorched recorded in this bank is baked, in the sense "dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight". 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 scorched
- bakedadjective, in the sense "dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight"
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 scorched is audited in a second meaning.
dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
The earth was scorched and bare.
The true synonym
baked
Same sentence, swapped: The earth was baked and bare.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- mangled
- imperfect
- impaired
Where scorched turns up in the game
scorched is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 scorched
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so scorched reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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