Processes

Synonyms for cursory

The synonym for cursory recorded in this bank is perfunctory, in the sense "hasty and superficial, lacking thoroughness". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line

The synonym for cursory

perfunctoryadjective, in the sense "hasty and superficial, lacking thoroughness"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day cursory is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampProcesses

hasty and superficial, lacking thoroughness

He gave the contract only a cursory glance before signing it.

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

The true synonym

perfunctory

Same sentence, swapped: He gave the contract only a perfunctory glance before signing it.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for cursory in the sentence quoted.

thorough
skeptical
lengthy

Where cursory turns up in the game

cursory is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play cursory

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cursory reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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perspirationnounsweatingthe process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluidHigh CampHas a reason line sterileadjectiveuninspireddeficient in originality or creativityHigh Camp2 sensesHas a reason line bureaucraticadjectivebyzantinecharacterized by excessive, complicated administrative procedureHigh CampHas a reason line crystallizeverbconcretizeto become clear, definite, and fixed in formHigh CampHas a reason line incrementaladjectivepiecemealoccurring in small successive stagesRidgelineHas a reason line iterateverbreworkto repeat a process, refining it with each passTreelineHas a reason line meltverb, nounrunreduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heatingTreeline2 sensesHas a reason line collateralnounsuretyan asset pledged to secure a loan, forfeited if the borrower fails to repayHigh CampHas a reason line

A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

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