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Synonyms for thoroughfare
The synonym for thoroughfare recorded in this bank is roadway, in the sense "a main road or route through a town, open at both ends". 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 thoroughfare
- roadwaynoun, in the sense "a main road or route through a town, open at both ends"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for thoroughfare.
a main road or route through a town, open at both ends.
Traffic crawled along the busy thoroughfare that cut through downtown.
The true synonym
roadway
Same sentence, swapped: Traffic crawled along the busy roadway that cut through downtown.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for thoroughfare in the sentence quoted.
- alley
- footpath
- junction
Where thoroughfare turns up in the game
thoroughfare 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 thoroughfare is the trap
- crossroadsnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is junction, in the sense "a point where two or more roads meet", with thoroughfare sitting one tile away.
Play thoroughfare
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so thoroughfare 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 places at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. thoroughfare carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.