Animals
Synonyms for stalk
The synonym for stalk recorded in this bank is shadow, in the sense "to pursue quarry stealthily". 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 stalk
- shadowverb, in the sense "to pursue quarry stealthily"
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 stalk is audited in a second meaning.
to pursue quarry stealthily
The lioness began to stalk the wounded gazelle, keeping low behind the scrub.
The true synonym
shadow
Same sentence, swapped: The lioness began to shadow the wounded gazelle, keeping low behind the scrub.
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.
- charge
- flee
- wallow
Where stalk turns up in the game
stalk 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 stalk
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so stalk reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from animals at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. stalk carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.