Quantity
Synonyms for surplus
The synonym for surplus recorded in this bank is glut, in the sense "an amount left over after requirements have been met". 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 surplus
- glutnoun, in the sense "an amount left over after requirements have been met"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for surplus.
an amount left over after requirements have been met
The harvest produced a surplus of grain that the farm sold at market.
The true synonym
glut
Same sentence, swapped: The harvest produced a glut of grain that the farm sold at market.
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.
- shortage
- sample
- shipment
Where surplus turns up in the game
surplus 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where surplus is the trap
- dearthnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is shortage, in the sense "a scarcity or lack of something", and surplus is on the board beside it.
- auxiliaryadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is supplemental, in the sense "functioning in a supporting capacity", and surplus is on the board beside it.
- deficitnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is shortage, in the sense "the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required", and surplus is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play surplus
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so surplus 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 quantity is the company surplus keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. surplus carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.