States and conditions
Synonyms for spurious
Synonyms for spurious: inauthentic and specious. 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 spurious
Interchangeable with spurious in this sense
Audited under spurious's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one spurious carries in that sense.
- inauthenticadjective, in the sense "false or fake"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name spurious as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- speciousspecious is an adjective in the sense "plausible but false"
The first group is filed under spurious's own sense. The second reaches spurious from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
false or fake
A spurious work of art.
The true synonym
inauthentic
Same sentence, swapped: A inauthentic work of art.
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 spurious is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- misbegotten
- feigned
- quasi
Where spurious turns up in the game
spurious is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 spurious
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so spurious 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 states and conditions is the company spurious keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. spurious carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.