People and roles
Synonyms for villain
The synonym for villain recorded in this bank is scoundrel, in the sense "a wicked or evil person, especially in a story". 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 villain
- scoundrelnoun, in the sense "a wicked or evil person, especially in a story"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and villain carries one sense so far.
a wicked or evil person, especially in a story
In the story, the villain plotted to destroy the city's power supply.
The true synonym
scoundrel
Same sentence, swapped: In the story, the scoundrel plotted to destroy the city's power supply.
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 villain in the sentence quoted.
- hero
- protagonist
- victim
Where villain turns up in the game
villain is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play villain
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so villain 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 people and roles words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. villain carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.