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Synonyms for strapping

The synonym for strapping recorded in this bank is husky, in the sense "muscular and heavily built". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for strapping

  • huskyadjective, in the sense "muscular and heavily built"

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 strapping is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineQualities

muscular and heavily built

A strapping boy of eighteen.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

husky

Same sentence, swapped: A husky boy of eighteen.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

  • lashing
  • obese
  • tubby

Where strapping turns up in the game

strapping is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 strapping is the trap

  • huskyadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is hoarse, in the sense "deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion", and strapping is on the board beside it.

Play strapping

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so strapping 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 same bank, read from both sides

strapping is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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