Quantity
Synonyms for stockpile
The synonym for stockpile recorded in this bank is hoard, in the sense "accumulate a large supply of something for future use". 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 stockpile
- hoardverb, in the sense "accumulate a large supply of something for future use"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and stockpile carries one sense so far.
accumulate a large supply of something for future use
Residents rushed to stockpile bottled water before the storm.
The true synonym
hoard
Same sentence, swapped: Residents rushed to hoard bottled water before the storm.
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.
- purify
- ration
- boil
Where stockpile turns up in the game
stockpile is the word under test in one puzzle, at 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 stockpile is the trap
- wieldverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is maintain, in the sense "have and exercise", so stockpile is there to be ruled out.
Play stockpile
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so stockpile 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 quantity at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. stockpile carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.