Food and drink
Synonyms for delicacy
The synonym for delicacy recorded in this bank is treat, in the sense "a rare or expensive food item considered highly desirable". 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 delicacy
- treatnoun, in the sense "a rare or expensive food item considered highly desirable"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for delicacy.
a rare or expensive food item considered highly desirable
Roasted grasshoppers are considered a delicacy in some countries.
The true synonym
treat
Same sentence, swapped: Roasted grasshoppers are considered a treat in some countries.
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 delicacy in the sentence quoted.
- staple
- leftover
- portion
Where delicacy turns up in the game
delicacy 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where delicacy is the trap
- brilliancenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is grandeur, in the sense "the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand", with delicacy sitting one tile away.
- discretionnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is prudence, in the sense "knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress", and delicacy is one of the three tiles that lose.
- energynoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is vim, in the sense "an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)", and delicacy is on the board beside it.
Play delicacy
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so delicacy 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 food and drink words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. delicacy carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.