Qualities
Synonyms for diligent
The synonym for diligent recorded in this bank is persevering, in the sense "quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness". 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 diligent
- perseveringadjective, in the sense "quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness"
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 diligent is audited in a second meaning.
quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness
She was a diligent student who never missed a class.
The true synonym
persevering
Same sentence, swapped: She was a persevering student who never missed a class.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where diligent stands in the sentence above.
- observant
- academic
- conscious
Where diligent turns up in the game
diligent 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 five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where diligent is the trap
- boastfuladjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is cocky, in the sense "excessively proud of one's own achievements, often speaking about them at length", and diligent is one of the three tiles that lose.
- unselfishadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is considerate, in the sense "putting others' needs or wants ahead of one's own", with diligent sitting one tile away.
- congenialadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is amiable, in the sense "friendly, pleasant, and easy to get along with", and diligent is one of the three tiles that lose.
- complacentadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is blase, in the sense "in a state of smug self-satisfaction, unconcerned about problems", and diligent is on the board beside it.
Play diligent
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Closest first: other qualities words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
diligent is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 5. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.