Qualities
Synonyms for variety
Synonyms for variety: change and mixture. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for variety
Two senses of variety, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
a difference that is usually pleasant
He goes to France for variety.
The true synonym
change
Same sentence, swapped: He goes to France for change.
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.
- disagreement
- differential
- otherness
a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
He had a variety of disorders.
The true synonym
mixture
Same sentence, swapped: He had a mixture of disorders.
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.
- form
- change
- wardrobe
Where variety turns up in the game
variety is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where variety is the trap
- disordernoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is upset, in the sense "a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning", and variety is one of the three tiles that lose.
- presentationnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is demonstration, in the sense "a show or display", and variety is one of the three tiles that lose.
- mixturenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is concoction, in the sense "any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients", and variety is one of the three tiles that lose.
- overthrownoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is upset, in the sense "the act of disturbing the mind or body", and variety is on the board beside it.
Play variety
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so variety 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 qualities at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. variety carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.