States and conditions
Synonyms for tempest
The synonym for tempest recorded in this bank is storm, in the sense "a violent commotion or disturbance". 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 tempest
- stormnoun, in the sense "a violent commotion or disturbance"
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 tempest is audited in a second meaning.
a violent commotion or disturbance
It was only a tempest in a teapot.
The true synonym
storm
Same sentence, swapped: It was only a storm in a teapot.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- splash
- earthquake
- incident
Where tempest turns up in the game
tempest 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 tempest is the trap
- dusternoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is sandstorm, in the sense "a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand", so tempest is there to be ruled out.
Play tempest
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tempest 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 states and conditions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
tempest 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.