Food and drink
Synonyms for provisions
The synonym for provisions recorded in this bank is supplies, in the sense "a stock of food and other supplies". 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 provisions
- suppliesnoun, in the sense "a stock of food and other supplies"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and provisions carries one sense so far.
a stock of food and other supplies
The sailors stocked provisions before the long voyage.
The true synonym
supplies
Same sentence, swapped: The sailors stocked supplies before the long voyage.
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 provisions in the sentence quoted.
- leftovers
- condiments
- delicacies
Where provisions turns up in the game
provisions 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 provisions is the trap
- beveragenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is drink, in the sense "any liquid suitable for drinking", with provisions sitting one tile away.
Play provisions
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so provisions 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 food and drink words at Foothills, 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. provisions carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.