Materials
Synonyms for debris
The synonym for debris recorded in this bank is detritus, in the sense "scattered fragments of something destroyed or discarded". 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 debris
- detritusnoun, in the sense "scattered fragments of something destroyed or discarded"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for debris.
scattered fragments of something destroyed or discarded
Years of construction had left the lot covered in debris: broken brick, twisted rebar, and shattered glass.
The true synonym
detritus
Same sentence, swapped: Years of construction had left the lot covered in detritus: broken brick, twisted rebar, and shattered glass.
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 debris in the sentence quoted.
- aggregate
- substrate
- veneer
Where debris turns up in the game
debris 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 debris
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so debris 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 materials words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. debris carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.