Qualities
Synonyms for boorish
The synonym for boorish recorded in this bank is neanderthal, in the sense "ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance". 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 boorish
- neanderthaladjective, in the sense "ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and boorish carries one sense so far.
ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
Was boorish and insensitive.
The true synonym
neanderthal
Same sentence, swapped: Was neanderthal and insensitive.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- cumbersome
- lumbering
- bungling
Where boorish turns up in the game
boorish is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 boorish is the trap
- lumberingadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is heavy, in the sense "slow and laborious because of weight", with boorish sitting one tile away.
Play boorish
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so boorish 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 qualities at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
One vocabulary, two jobs
boorish 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.