Contact and joining

Synonyms for excavate

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb · Reason line included

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineContact and joining

remove the inner part or the core of

The mining company wants to excavate the hillside.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

dig

Same sentence, swapped: The mining company wants to dig the hillside.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for excavate as it is used in the sentence above.

unearth
husk
unburden

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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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