Places
Synonyms for environs
The synonym for environs recorded in this bank is surroundings, in the sense "the surrounding areas or districts of a place". 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 environs
- surroundingsnoun, in the sense "the surrounding areas or districts of a place"
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 environs is audited in a second meaning.
the surrounding areas or districts of a place.
Wildlife thrives in the environs of the old quarry.
The true synonym
surroundings
Same sentence, swapped: Wildlife thrives in the surroundings of the old quarry.
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.
- population
- architecture
- infrastructure
Where environs turns up in the game
environs 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 environs
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so environs 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 places is the company environs keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. environs carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.