Emotions

Synonyms for yearn

The synonym for yearn recorded in this bank is long, in the sense "to have an intense feeling of longing for something". 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 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line

The synonym for yearn

longverb, in the sense "to have an intense feeling of longing for something"

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 yearn is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineEmotions

to have an intense feeling of longing for something

It's natural to yearn for the comforts of home after years abroad.

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The true synonym

long

Same sentence, swapped: It's natural to long for the comforts of home after years abroad.

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 yearn in the sentence quoted.

wait
settle
ask

Where yearn turns up in the game

yearn is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 yearn

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so yearn 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 wrong tile gets explained too

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