Money
Synonyms for royalty
The synonym for royalty recorded in this bank is residual, in the sense "a payment made to an author, composer, or inventor for the ongoing use of their work". 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 royalty
- residualnoun, in the sense "a payment made to an author, composer, or inventor for the ongoing use of their work"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for royalty.
a payment made to an author, composer, or inventor for the ongoing use of their work
The songwriter still collects a royalty check whenever the single plays on the radio.
The true synonym
residual
Same sentence, swapped: The songwriter still collects a residual check whenever the single plays on the radio.
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 royalty in the sentence quoted.
- credit
- award
- nomination
Where royalty turns up in the game
royalty 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where royalty is the trap
- bulknoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is majority, in the sense "the great mass or majority of something", and royalty is one of the three tiles that lose.
- tariffnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is duty, in the sense "a tax imposed on goods imported or exported", and royalty is on the board beside it.
- tributenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is homage, in the sense "a gift, act, or statement made to show respect or gratitude", with royalty sitting one tile away.
- distinctionnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is differentiation, in the sense "a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes", and royalty is on the board beside it.
Play royalty
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so royalty reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from money at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. royalty carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.