Nature

Synonyms for wilt

The synonym for wilt recorded in this bank is droop, in the sense "to lose freshness and droop, as a plant does from heat or lack of water". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for wilt

droopverb, in the sense "to lose freshness and droop, as a plant does from heat or lack of water"

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 wilt is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsNature

to lose freshness and droop, as a plant does from heat or lack of water

The tulips began to wilt in the afternoon heat.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

droop

Same sentence, swapped: The tulips began to droop in the afternoon heat.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

bloom
sprout
ripen

Where wilt turns up in the game

wilt 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where wilt is the trap

flourishverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is thrive, in the sense "to grow vigorously and healthily", and wilt is on the board beside it.
thriveverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is prosper, in the sense "to grow or develop vigorously and successfully", and wilt is on the board beside it.

Play wilt

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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