Weather

Synonyms for sweltering

The synonym for sweltering recorded in this bank is torrid, in the sense "extremely and unpleasantly hot". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line

The synonym for sweltering

torridadjective, in the sense "extremely and unpleasantly hot"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and sweltering carries one sense so far.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampWeather

extremely and unpleasantly hot

The sweltering afternoon sun kept everyone indoors until well past four.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

torrid

Same sentence, swapped: The torrid afternoon sun kept everyone indoors until well past four.

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 sweltering in the sentence quoted.

humid
temperate
balmy

Where sweltering turns up in the game

sweltering is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 sweltering

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sweltering reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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