Materials

Synonyms for friable

The synonym for friable recorded in this bank is crumbly, in the sense "easily crumbled or broken into loose particles". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line

The synonym for friable

crumblyadjective, in the sense "easily crumbled or broken into loose particles"

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 friable is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampMaterials

easily crumbled or broken into loose particles

The sandstone was so friable that it fell apart between his fingers.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

crumbly

Same sentence, swapped: The sandstone was so crumbly that it fell apart between his fingers.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for friable in the sentence quoted.

dense
glossy
pliable

Where friable turns up in the game

friable is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 friable

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so friable reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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