Materials
Synonyms for crumbly
The synonym for crumbly recorded in this bank is friable, in the sense "easily breaking into small fragments". 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 crumbly
- friableadjective, in the sense "easily breaking into small fragments"
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 crumbly is audited in a second meaning.
easily breaking into small fragments
After weeks in the oven's dry heat, the biscuit had turned crumbly and fell apart at a touch.
The true synonym
friable
Same sentence, swapped: After weeks in the oven's dry heat, the biscuit had turned friable and fell apart at a touch.
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.
- leathery
- gummy
- waxy
Where crumbly turns up in the game
crumbly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 crumbly
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so crumbly 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 materials at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. crumbly carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.