Animals
Synonyms for carcass
The synonym for carcass recorded in this bank is corpse, in the sense "the dead body of an animal". 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 carcass
- corpsenoun, in the sense "the dead body of an animal"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for carcass.
the dead body of an animal
Vultures circled above the carcass of the fallen wildebeest.
The true synonym
corpse
Same sentence, swapped: Vultures circled above the corpse of the fallen wildebeest.
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 carcass in the sentence quoted.
- skeleton
- husk
- brood
Where carcass turns up in the game
carcass 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where carcass is the trap
- bombshellnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is thunderclap, in the sense "a shocking surprise", and carcass is on the board beside it.
Play carcass
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so carcass 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 animals words at Foothills, 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. carcass carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.