Nature
Synonyms for side
Synonyms for side: slope and face. 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 2 synonyms for side
Interchangeable with side in this sense
Audited under side's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one side carries in that sense.
- slopenoun, in the sense "an elevated geological formation"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name side as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- faceface is a noun in the sense "a surface forming part of the outside of an object"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under side and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
an elevated geological formation
The house was built on the side of a mountain.
The true synonym
slope
Same sentence, swapped: The house was built on the slope of a mountain.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- position
- mouth
- wall
Where side turns up in the game
side is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where side is the trap
- housenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is home, in the sense "a social unit living together", so side is there to be ruled out.
- tracknoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is course, in the sense "a line or route along which something travels or moves", and side is on the board beside it.
- familynoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is folk, in the sense "people descended from a common ancestor", with side sitting one tile away.
- midriffnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is middle, in the sense "the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)", and side is on the board beside it.
Play side
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so side 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 nature words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
side is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 5. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.