Animals
Synonyms for quarry
Synonyms for quarry: prey and pit. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for quarry
Interchangeable with quarry in this sense
Audited under quarry's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one quarry carries in that sense.
- preynoun, in the sense "an animal that is being hunted or pursued"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name quarry as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- pitpit is a noun in the sense "a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under quarry and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
an animal that is being hunted or pursued
The wolves fanned out to encircle their quarry before it could bolt for the tree line.
The true synonym
prey
Same sentence, swapped: The wolves fanned out to encircle their prey before it could bolt for the tree line.
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.
- predator
- scavenger
- carnivore
Where quarry turns up in the game
quarry is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 quarry is the trap
- smeltverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is refine, in the sense "to melt ore in order to extract a pure metal from it", so quarry is there to be ruled out.
Play quarry
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so quarry 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 animals is the company quarry keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. quarry carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.