Objects

Synonyms for underground

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsObjects

an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)

She takes the underground to work every morning in London.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

tube

Same sentence, swapped: She takes the tube to work every morning in London.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for underground as it is used in the sentence above.

resistance
unknown
blind

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Closest first: other objects words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

busnouncoacha vehicle carrying many passengersFoothillsHas a reason line carnounmachinea motor vehicle with four wheelsFoothills casenounexamplean occurrence of somethingFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line clubnounninea team of professional baseball players who play and travel togetherFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line pitverb, nounstoneremove the pits fromFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line plazanounmallmercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisersTreeline pointnoungunpointthe gun muzzle's directionRidgelineHas a reason line virginadjectivepurein a state of sexual virginityFoothills

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