Animals
Synonyms for carrion
The synonym for carrion recorded in this bank is remains, in the sense "the decaying flesh of a dead animal, especially as food for scavengers". 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 carrion
- remainsnoun, in the sense "the decaying flesh of a dead animal, especially as food for scavengers"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and carrion carries one sense so far.
the decaying flesh of a dead animal, especially as food for scavengers
Hyenas will happily feed on the carrion left behind by lions.
The true synonym
remains
Same sentence, swapped: Hyenas will happily feed on the remains left behind by lions.
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 carrion in the sentence quoted.
- fodder
- forage
- provender
Where carrion turns up in the game
carrion 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 carrion
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so carrion reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because animals is the company carrion keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. carrion carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.