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Synonyms for excavation
The synonym for excavation recorded in this bank is dig, in the sense "the act of digging". 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 excavation
- dignoun, in the sense "the act of digging"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for excavation.
the act of digging
There's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton.
The true synonym
dig
Same sentence, swapped: There's an interesting dig going on near Princeton.
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.
- mining
- carving
- drilling
Where excavation turns up in the game
excavation is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where excavation is the trap
- dignoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is jab, in the sense "the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow", and excavation is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play excavation
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so excavation 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 actions words at Ridgeline, 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. excavation carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.