People and roles
Synonyms for amateur
The synonym for amateur recorded in this bank is unpaid, in the sense "engaged in as a pastime". 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 amateur
- unpaidadjective, in the sense "engaged in as a pastime"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for amateur.
engaged in as a pastime
An amateur painter.
The true synonym
unpaid
Same sentence, swapped: An unpaid painter.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where amateur stands in the sentence above.
- shallow
- immature
- buff
Where amateur turns up in the game
amateur is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 amateur is the trap
- superficialadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is trivial, in the sense "of little substance or significance", and amateur is on the board beside it.
Play amateur
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so amateur reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from people and roles at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
amateur is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.