Food and drink

Synonyms for condiment

The synonym for condiment recorded in this bank is sauce, in the sense "a substance such as a sauce added to food to enhance its flavor". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for condiment

saucenoun, in the sense "a substance such as a sauce added to food to enhance its flavor"

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 condiment is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsFood and drink

a substance such as a sauce added to food to enhance its flavor

Ketchup is the most popular condiment in American diners.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

sauce

Same sentence, swapped: Ketchup is the most popular sauce in American diners.

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 condiment in the sentence quoted.

dessert
beverage
appetizer

Where condiment turns up in the game

condiment 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where condiment is the trap

morselnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is scrap, in the sense "a small piece or amount of food", with condiment sitting one tile away.
staplenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is mainstay, in the sense "a food eaten regularly as a basic part of the diet", and condiment is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play condiment

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so condiment reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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