The body
Synonyms for wiry
The synonym for wiry recorded in this bank is sinewy, in the sense "lean and tough, with sinewy muscles". 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 wiry
- sinewyadjective, in the sense "lean and tough, with sinewy muscles"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and wiry carries one sense so far.
lean and tough, with sinewy muscles
The old farmer was wiry, with forearms like rope.
The true synonym
sinewy
Same sentence, swapped: The old farmer was sinewy, with forearms like rope.
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.
- flabby
- bulky
- soft
Where wiry turns up in the game
wiry 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 wiry is the trap
- burlyadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is brawny, in the sense "large and strongly built", so wiry is there to be ruled out.
Play wiry
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wiry 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 the body is the company wiry keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. wiry carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.