States and conditions

Synonyms for fierce

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective

The senseadjectiveTier 2, TreelineStates and conditions

violently agitated and turbulent

The fierce seas tossed the little boat about.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

rough

Same sentence, swapped: The rough seas tossed the little boat about.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for fierce as it is used in the sentence above.

tearing
hostile
howling

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Closest first: other states and conditions words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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