Food and drink
Synonyms for sear
The synonym for sear recorded in this bank is brown, in the sense "to brown the surface of food quickly with intense heat". 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 sear
- brownverb, in the sense "to brown the surface of food quickly with intense heat"
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 sear is audited in a second meaning.
to brown the surface of food quickly with intense heat
The chef will sear the steak quickly to lock in its juices.
The true synonym
brown
Same sentence, swapped: The chef will brown the steak quickly to lock in its juices.
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.
- boil
- steam
- poach
Where sear turns up in the game
sear 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 sear
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sear 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 food and drink words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sear carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.