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Synonyms for soil
Synonyms for soil: territory and dirty. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for soil
- territorynoun, in the sense "the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state"
- dirtyverb, in the sense "make soiled, filthy, or dirty"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of soil, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
American troops were stationed on Japanese soil.
The true synonym
territory
Same sentence, swapped: American troops were stationed on Japanese territory.
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 soil in the sentence quoted.
- stain
- environment
- property
make soiled, filthy, or dirty
Don't soil your clothes when you play outside!
The true synonym
dirty
Same sentence, swapped: Don't dirty your clothes when you play outside!
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 soil is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- clean
- delay
- recommend
Where soil turns up in the game
soil is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across 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 soil is the trap
- affectverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is touch, in the sense "have an effect upon", and soil is on the board beside it.
Play soil
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so soil 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 places is the company soil keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. soil carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.