Quantity
Synonyms for dearth
The synonym for dearth recorded in this bank is shortage, in the sense "a scarcity or lack of something". 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 dearth
- shortagenoun, in the sense "a scarcity or lack of something"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and dearth carries one sense so far.
a scarcity or lack of something
There was a dearth of fresh vegetables at the remote outpost.
The true synonym
shortage
Same sentence, swapped: There was a shortage of fresh vegetables at the remote outpost.
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.
- shipment
- inspection
- surplus
Where dearth turns up in the game
dearth 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 dearth
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dearth 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 quantity is the company dearth keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. dearth carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.