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Synonyms for skirt
The synonym for skirt recorded in this bank is bypass, in the sense "to go around the edge of a place rather than through it". 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 skirt
- bypassverb, in the sense "to go around the edge of a place rather than through it"
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 skirt is audited in a second meaning.
to go around the edge of a place rather than through it.
New highways often skirt old town centers to save time.
The true synonym
bypass
Same sentence, swapped: New highways often bypass old town centers to save time.
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 skirt in the sentence quoted.
- cross
- enter
- penetrate
Where skirt turns up in the game
skirt 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 skirt
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so skirt 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 places words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. skirt carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.