Contact and joining
Synonyms for scuffle
The synonym for scuffle recorded in this bank is tussle, in the sense "fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters". 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 scuffle
- tussleverb, in the sense "fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and scuffle carries one sense so far.
fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters
The drunken men started to scuffle.
The true synonym
tussle
Same sentence, swapped: The drunken men started to tussle.
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.
- shuffle
- fistfight
- bandy
Where scuffle turns up in the game
scuffle is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 scuffle is the trap
- shuffleverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is mix, in the sense "mix so as to make a random order or arrangement", with scuffle sitting one tile away.
Play scuffle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so scuffle reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because contact and joining is the company scuffle keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. scuffle carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.