Competition

Synonyms for scrappy

The synonym for scrappy recorded in this bank is tenacious, in the sense "determined and willing to fight hard despite a disadvantage". 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 · adjective · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for scrappy

tenaciousadjective, in the sense "determined and willing to fight hard despite a disadvantage"

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

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineCompetition

determined and willing to fight hard despite a disadvantage

The scrappy young boxer refused to back down against a much bigger opponent.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

tenacious

Same sentence, swapped: The tenacious young boxer refused to back down against a much bigger opponent.

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 scrappy in the sentence quoted.

timid
meek
mild

Where scrappy turns up in the game

scrappy 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 scrappy is the trap

jaggedadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is scraggy, in the sense "having a sharply uneven surface or outline", and scrappy is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play scrappy

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so scrappy 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 competition words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

fendverbstandwithstand the force of somethingRidgeline gruelingadjectivearduousextremely demanding and exhausting, testing enduranceRidgelineHas a reason line peerlessadjectivematchlesswithout equal in one's fieldRidgelineHas a reason line peltverbpepperattack and bombard with or as if with missilesRidgelineHas a reason line combatverbbattlebattle or contend against in or as if in a battleTreelineHas a reason line combativeadjectivefeistyeager and ready to compete or contendTreelineHas a reason line contendernounaspiranta person or team competing seriously for a titleHigh CampHas a reason line oppositionnounconfrontationthe act of hostile groups opposing each otherRidgelineHas a reason line

Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. scrappy carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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