Nature
Synonyms for gravel
The synonym for gravel recorded in this bank is shingle, in the sense "small loose stones and pebbles". 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 gravel
- shinglenoun, in the sense "small loose stones and pebbles"
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 gravel is audited in a second meaning.
small loose stones and pebbles
Loose gravel crunched under their boots as they walked.
The true synonym
shingle
Same sentence, swapped: Loose shingle crunched under their boots as they walked.
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 gravel in the sentence quoted.
- sand
- clay
- boulder
Where gravel turns up in the game
gravel 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where gravel is the trap
- pebblenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is stone, in the sense "a small smooth stone", with gravel sitting one tile away.
- siltnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is sediment, in the sense "fine sediment carried and deposited by water", with gravel sitting one tile away.
- smearverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is daub, in the sense "cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it", so gravel is there to be ruled out.
Play gravel
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gravel 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 nature words at Treeline, 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. gravel carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.