The body
Synonyms for backbone
Synonyms for backbone: grit and spine. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for backbone
Interchangeable with backbone in this sense
Audited under backbone's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one backbone carries in that sense.
- gritnoun, in the sense "courage and firmness of character"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name backbone as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- spinespine is a noun in the sense "the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved"
The first group is filed under backbone's own sense. The second reaches backbone from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
courage and firmness of character
It took real backbone to admit the mistake in front of the entire company.
The true synonym
grit
Same sentence, swapped: It took real grit to admit the mistake in front of the entire company.
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.
- pride
- stubbornness
- ambition
Where backbone turns up in the game
backbone 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 backbone
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so backbone 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 the body at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. backbone carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.