Quantity
Synonyms for ration
The synonym for ration recorded in this bank is allowance, in the sense "a fixed amount of something allotted per person". 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 ration
- allowancenoun, in the sense "a fixed amount of something allotted per person"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and ration carries one sense so far.
a fixed amount of something allotted per person
Each soldier received a daily ration of bread and water.
The true synonym
allowance
Same sentence, swapped: Each soldier received a daily allowance of bread and 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.
- delivery
- recipe
- inspection
Where ration turns up in the game
ration 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 ration is the trap
- stockpileverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is hoard, in the sense "accumulate a large supply of something for future use", with ration sitting one tile away.
Play ration
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ration 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 quantity words at Treeline, 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. ration carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.