Quantity
Synonyms for paucity
The synonym for paucity recorded in this bank is scarcity, in the sense "the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities". 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 paucity
- scarcitynoun, in the sense "the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities"
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 paucity is audited in a second meaning.
the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities
The report blamed the delay on a paucity of qualified inspectors.
The true synonym
scarcity
Same sentence, swapped: The report blamed the delay on a scarcity of qualified inspectors.
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 paucity in the sentence quoted.
- turnover
- negligence
- oversight
Where paucity turns up in the game
paucity is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 paucity
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so paucity reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because quantity is the company paucity keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. paucity carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.