Nature
Synonyms for pebble
The synonym for pebble recorded in this bank is stone, in the sense "a small smooth stone". 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 pebble
- stonenoun, in the sense "a small smooth stone"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for pebble.
a small smooth stone
She skipped a pebble across the still lake water.
The true synonym
stone
Same sentence, swapped: She skipped a stone across the still lake water.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- boulder
- gravel
- shell
Where pebble turns up in the game
pebble 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 pebble is the trap
- bouldernoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is rock, in the sense "a large detached rock", with pebble sitting one tile away.
Play pebble
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pebble 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 nature at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. pebble carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.