Objects
Synonyms for skeleton
The synonym for skeleton recorded in this bank is frame, in the sense "the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape". 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 skeleton
- framenoun, in the sense "the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day skeleton is audited in a second meaning.
the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
The building has a steel skeleton.
The true synonym
frame
Same sentence, swapped: The building has a steel frame.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where skeleton stands in the sentence above.
- chart
- sketch
- stiff
Where skeleton turns up in the game
skeleton 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where skeleton is the trap
- carcassnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is corpse, in the sense "the dead body of an animal", so skeleton is there to be ruled out.
Play skeleton
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so skeleton 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 objects words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
skeleton is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.