Quantity
Synonyms for hoard
Synonyms for hoard: stash and stockpile. 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 hoard
Interchangeable with hoard in this sense
Audited under hoard's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one hoard carries in that sense.
- stashverb, in the sense "to accumulate and store away a large quantity, often secretively"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name hoard as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- stockpilestockpile is a verb in the sense "accumulate a large supply of something for future use"
one of these comes from hoard's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
to accumulate and store away a large quantity, often secretively
During the shortage, some families began to hoard canned food in their basements.
The true synonym
stash
Same sentence, swapped: During the shortage, some families began to stash canned food in their basements.
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 hoard in the sentence quoted.
- donate
- inspect
- discard
Where hoard turns up in the game
hoard 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 hoard is the trap
- compileverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is compose, in the sense "put together out of existing material", with hoard sitting one tile away.
Play hoard
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hoard 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 quantity words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. hoard carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.