Groups and collections
Synonyms for posterity
The synonym for posterity recorded in this bank is descendants, in the sense "all of the offspring of a given progenitor". 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 posterity
- descendantsnoun, in the sense "all of the offspring of a given progenitor"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and posterity carries one sense so far.
all of the offspring of a given progenitor
We must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity.
The true synonym
descendants
Same sentence, swapped: We must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our descendants.
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 posterity is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- colony
- division
- kindred
Where posterity turns up in the game
posterity is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 posterity
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so posterity reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other groups and collections words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. posterity carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.