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Synonyms for wilderness
The synonym for wilderness recorded in this bank is wilds, in the sense "a wild, uninhabited natural region". 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 wilderness
- wildsnoun, in the sense "a wild, uninhabited natural region"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and wilderness carries one sense so far.
a wild, uninhabited natural region
Hikers vanished into the wilderness for a week.
The true synonym
wilds
Same sentence, swapped: Hikers vanished into the wilds for a week.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot wilderness is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- countryside
- backwater
- prairie
Where wilderness turns up in the game
wilderness 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 wilderness is the trap
- surroundnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is environment, in the sense "the area in which something exists or lives", and wilderness is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play wilderness
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wilderness reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because places is the company wilderness keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. wilderness carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.