The body
Synonyms for svelte
The synonym for svelte recorded in this bank is slender, in the sense "slender and elegant in figure". 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 svelte
- slenderadjective, in the sense "slender and elegant in figure"
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 svelte is audited in a second meaning.
slender and elegant in figure
The svelte dancer moved across the stage with barely a sound.
The true synonym
slender
Same sentence, swapped: The slender dancer moved across the stage with barely a sound.
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.
- portly
- hefty
- stocky
Where svelte turns up in the game
svelte is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 svelte is the trap
- rarefiedadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is rarified, in the sense "having low density", with svelte sitting one tile away.
Play svelte
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so svelte 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 the body at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. svelte carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.