Contact and joining
Synonyms for whittle
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
cut small bits or pare shavings from
Whittle a piece of wood.
The true synonym
pare
Same sentence, swapped: Pare a piece of wood.
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 whittle as it is used in the sentence above.
- undercut
- tomahawk
- steel
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