Animals
Synonyms for scamper
The synonym for scamper recorded in this bank is scurry, in the sense "to run with quick light steps, especially in a playful or hurried way". 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 scamper
- scurryverb, in the sense "to run with quick light steps, especially in a playful or hurried way"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and scamper carries one sense so far.
to run with quick light steps, especially in a playful or hurried way
The squirrels always scamper up the oak trunk the instant the dog barks.
The true synonym
scurry
Same sentence, swapped: The squirrels always scurry up the oak trunk the instant the dog barks.
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 scamper in the sentence quoted.
- burrow
- forage
- molt
Where scamper turns up in the game
scamper is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play scamper
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so scamper 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 animals words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. scamper carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.