Nature
Synonyms for thicket
The synonym for thicket recorded in this bank is tangle, in the sense "a dense mass of tangled bushes or small trees". 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 thicket
- tanglenoun, in the sense "a dense mass of tangled bushes or small trees"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and thicket carries one sense so far.
a dense mass of tangled bushes or small trees
They pushed through a thicket of brambles to reach the stream.
The true synonym
tangle
Same sentence, swapped: They pushed through a tangle of brambles to reach the stream.
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 thicket in the sentence quoted.
- grove
- meadow
- hedge
Where thicket turns up in the game
thicket 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where thicket is the trap
- gladenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is clearing, in the sense "an open, grassy space within a forest", so thicket is there to be ruled out.
Play thicket
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so thicket 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 ring widens as it goes, from nature at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. thicket carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.