Events
Synonyms for pity
The synonym for pity recorded in this bank is shame, in the sense "an unfortunate development". 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 pity
- shamenoun, in the sense "an unfortunate development"
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 pity is audited in a second meaning.
an unfortunate development
It's a pity he couldn't do it.
The true synonym
shame
Same sentence, swapped: It's a shame he couldn't do it.
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.
- ruth
- compassion
- tragedy
Where pity turns up in the game
pity 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where pity is the trap
- disasternoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is tragedy, in the sense "an event resulting in great loss and misfortune", so pity is there to be ruled out.
- envynoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is jealousy, in the sense "a feeling of discontented longing aroused by someone else's possessions or qualities", and pity is one of the three tiles that lose.
- despiseverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is loathe, in the sense "to feel intense dislike or contempt for", so pity is there to be ruled out.
Play pity
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pity 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 events 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. pity carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.