Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for keystone
The synonym for keystone recorded in this bank is anchor, in the sense "a central cohesive source of support and stability". 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 keystone
- anchornoun, in the sense "a central cohesive source of support and stability"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and keystone carries one sense so far.
a central cohesive source of support and stability
The keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money.
The true synonym
anchor
Same sentence, swapped: The anchor of campaign reform was the ban on soft money.
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 keystone in the sentence quoted.
- headstone
- lifeline
- kernel
Where keystone turns up in the game
keystone is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 keystone
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so keystone 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 thinking and knowing words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. keystone carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.