Contact and joining
Synonyms for shore
The synonym for shore recorded in this bank is prop, in the sense "support by placing against something solid or rigid". 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 shore
- propverb, in the sense "support by placing against something solid or rigid"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for shore.
support by placing against something solid or rigid
Shore and buttress an old building.
The true synonym
prop
Same sentence, swapped: Prop and buttress an old building.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot shore is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- land
- pole
- block
Where shore turns up in the game
shore is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where shore is the trap
- cliffnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is drop, in the sense "a steep high face of rock", with shore sitting one tile away.
- landverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is bring, in the sense "bring into a different state", and shore is on the board beside it.
- convergeverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is meet, in the sense "be adjacent or come together", and shore is on the board beside it.
Play shore
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so shore 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 shore keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. shore carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.