Nature
Synonyms for den
The synonym for den recorded in this bank is lair, in the sense "a wild animal's hidden shelter or lair". 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 den
- lairnoun, in the sense "a wild animal's hidden shelter or lair"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and den carries one sense so far.
a wild animal's hidden shelter or lair
The fox disappeared into its den beneath the old tree roots.
The true synonym
lair
Same sentence, swapped: The fox disappeared into its lair beneath the old tree roots.
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.
- hive
- nest
- coop
Where den turns up in the game
den 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 den
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so den 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 nature words at Treeline, 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. den carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.