Nature

Synonyms for reservoir

The synonym for reservoir recorded in this bank is source, in the sense "anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for reservoir

sourcenoun, in the sense "anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for reservoir.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineNature

anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies

An infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

source

Same sentence, swapped: An infectious agent depends on a source for its survival.

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 reservoir in the sentence quoted.

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Where reservoir turns up in the game

reservoir is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 reservoir is the trap

conduitnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is duct, in the sense "a channel or pipe through which something is conveyed", with reservoir sitting one tile away.

Play reservoir

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so reservoir reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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Closest first: other nature words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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