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Synonyms for tempered

The synonym for tempered recorded in this bank is treated, in the sense "made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment". 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for tempered

treatedadjective, in the sense "made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment"

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

The senseadjectiveTier 3, Ridgeline

made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

A sword of tempered steel.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

treated

Same sentence, swapped: A sword of treated steel.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where tempered stands in the sentence above.

hushed
conditioned
subdued

Where tempered turns up in the game

tempered is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where tempered is the trap

serratedadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is toothed, in the sense "having a jagged, tooth-like edge", and tempered is on the board beside it.

Play tempered

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

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else

tempered is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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