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Synonyms for shooting
The synonym for shooting recorded in this bank is shot, in the sense "the act of firing a projectile". 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 shooting
- shotnoun, in the sense "the act of firing a projectile"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and shooting carries one sense so far.
the act of firing a projectile
His shooting was slow but accurate.
The true synonym
shot
Same sentence, swapped: His shot was slow but accurate.
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 shooting in the sentence quoted.
- raise
- jump
- hanging
Where shooting turns up in the game
shooting is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where shooting is the trap
- liftnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is raise, in the sense "the act of raising something", and shooting is one of the three tiles that lose.
- hangingnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is suspension, in the sense "the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)", with shooting sitting one tile away.
Play shooting
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so shooting 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 actions words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. shooting carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.