People and roles

Synonyms for miser

The synonym for miser recorded in this bank is skinflint, in the sense "a person who hoards money and hates spending it". 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for miser

skinflintnoun, in the sense "a person who hoards money and hates spending it"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and miser carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelinePeople and roles

a person who hoards money and hates spending it

The old miser refused to spend a single coin on anything but bread.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

skinflint

Same sentence, swapped: The old skinflint refused to spend a single coin on anything but bread.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot miser is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

pauper
spendthrift
philanthropist

Where miser turns up in the game

miser is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 miser is the trap

spendthriftnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is profligate, in the sense "a person who spends money in a recklessly wasteful way", with miser sitting one tile away.

Play miser

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so miser 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 wrong tile gets explained too

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