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Synonyms for ladle
The synonym for ladle recorded in this bank is scoop, in the sense "a large long-handled spoon for serving liquid food". 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 ladle
- scoopnoun, in the sense "a large long-handled spoon for serving liquid food"
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 ladle is audited in a second meaning.
a large long-handled spoon for serving liquid food
He used a ladle to pour soup from the pot into each bowl.
The true synonym
scoop
Same sentence, swapped: He used a scoop to pour soup from the pot into each bowl.
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 ladle in the sentence quoted.
- whisk
- spatula
- colander
Where ladle turns up in the game
ladle 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 ladle is the trap
- leachverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is strip, in the sense "remove substances from by a percolating liquid", with ladle sitting one tile away.
Play ladle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ladle 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 objects at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ladle carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.