Materials
Synonyms for shard
The synonym for shard recorded in this bank is sliver, in the sense "a sharp, thin broken piece of a hard brittle material". 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 shard
- slivernoun, in the sense "a sharp, thin broken piece of a hard brittle material"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and shard carries one sense so far.
a sharp, thin broken piece of a hard brittle material
A shard of glass from the broken vase sliced across her palm.
The true synonym
sliver
Same sentence, swapped: A sliver of glass from the broken vase sliced across her palm.
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 shard in the sentence quoted.
- speck
- chunk
- smudge
Where shard turns up in the game
shard 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 shard
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so shard 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 materials words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. shard carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.