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Synonyms for dutiful
The synonym for dutiful recorded in this bank is duteous, in the sense "willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect". 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 dutiful
- duteousadjective, in the sense "willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect"
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 dutiful is audited in a second meaning.
willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect
A dutiful child.
The true synonym
duteous
Same sentence, swapped: A duteous child.
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.
- adoring
- courteous
- attentive
Where dutiful turns up in the game
dutiful is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 dutiful is the trap
- neighborlyadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is obliging, in the sense "friendly and helpful in the way expected of a good neighbor", and dutiful is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play dutiful
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dutiful 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 actions at Summit outward to the whole bank.
One vocabulary, two jobs
dutiful 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.