Nature
Synonyms for flock
Synonyms for flock: group and troop. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for flock
Interchangeable with flock in this sense
Audited under flock's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one flock carries in that sense.
- groupnoun, in the sense "a group of birds or sheep moving or feeding together"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name flock as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- trooptroop is a noun in the sense "an orderly crowd"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under flock and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
a group of birds or sheep moving or feeding together
A flock of starlings swirled over the field.
The true synonym
group
Same sentence, swapped: A group of starlings swirled over the field.
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.
- herd
- litter
- brood
Where flock turns up in the game
flock is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 flock is the trap
- foldnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is bend, in the sense "an angular or rounded shape made by folding", and flock is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play flock
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so flock 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 nature at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. flock carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.