Quantity
Synonyms for excess
The synonym for excess recorded in this bank is overabundance, in the sense "an amount of something beyond what is needed or usual". 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 excess
- overabundancenoun, in the sense "an amount of something beyond what is needed or usual"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and excess carries one sense so far.
an amount of something beyond what is needed or usual.
By midnight the buffet table held an excess of untouched food.
The true synonym
overabundance
Same sentence, swapped: By midnight the buffet table held an overabundance of untouched food.
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.
- scarcity
- residue
- shortfall
Where excess turns up in the game
excess is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 excess is the trap
- extraadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is additional, in the sense "further or added", with excess sitting one tile away.
Play excess
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so excess reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from quantity at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. excess carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.