Animals
Synonyms for slither
The synonym for slither recorded in this bank is slide, in the sense "to move smoothly with a twisting or sliding motion, as a snake does". 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 slither
- slideverb, in the sense "to move smoothly with a twisting or sliding motion, as a snake does"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for slither.
to move smoothly with a twisting or sliding motion, as a snake does
The garter snake likes to slither beneath the porch steps to escape the heat.
The true synonym
slide
Same sentence, swapped: The garter snake likes to slide beneath the porch steps to escape the heat.
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 slither in the sentence quoted.
- scuttle
- burrow
- molt
Where slither turns up in the game
slither is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 slither
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so slither 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 animals words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. slither carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.