Contact and joining
Synonyms for uproot
The synonym for uproot recorded in this bank is extirpate, in the sense "pull up by or as if by the roots". 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 uproot
- extirpateverb, in the sense "pull up by or as if by the roots"
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 uproot is audited in a second meaning.
pull up by or as if by the roots
Uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden.
The true synonym
extirpate
Same sentence, swapped: Extirpate the vine that has spread all over the garden.
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 uproot in the sentence quoted.
- ruffle
- propel
- depose
Where uproot turns up in the game
uproot is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 uproot is the trap
- extricateverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is untangle, in the sense "release from entanglement of difficulty", and uproot is on the board beside it.
Play uproot
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so uproot reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Summit, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. uproot carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.