Shapes
Synonyms for tortuous
The synonym for tortuous recorded in this bank is winding, in the sense "marked by repeated turns and bends". 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 tortuous
- windingadjective, in the sense "marked by repeated turns and bends"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and tortuous carries one sense so far.
marked by repeated turns and bends
A tortuous road up the mountain.
The true synonym
winding
Same sentence, swapped: A winding road up the mountain.
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 tortuous in the sentence quoted.
- tangled
- overwrought
- lurid
Where tortuous turns up in the game
tortuous 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 tortuous
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tortuous 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 shapes words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. tortuous carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.