Movement
Synonyms for skitter
The synonym for skitter recorded in this bank is scurry, in the sense "to move quickly and lightly with short, skipping motions". 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 skitter
- scurryverb, in the sense "to move quickly and lightly with short, skipping motions"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and skitter carries one sense so far.
to move quickly and lightly with short, skipping motions
Mice skitter across the kitchen floor whenever the light switches on.
The true synonym
scurry
Same sentence, swapped: Mice scurry across the kitchen floor whenever the light switches on.
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.
- creep
- slide
- tiptoe
Where skitter turns up in the game
skitter 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 skitter
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so skitter 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 movement is the company skitter keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. skitter carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.