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Synonyms for fertile

Synonyms for fertile: rich and prolific. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for fertile

Interchangeable with fertile in this sense

Audited under fertile's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one fertile carries in that sense.

richadjective, in the sense "producing abundant vegetation or crops"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name fertile as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

prolificprolific is an adjective in the sense "bearing in abundance especially offspring"

The first group is filed under fertile's own sense. The second reaches fertile from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.

The senseadjectiveTier 1, FoothillsNature

producing abundant vegetation or crops

The fertile soil along the river produced bumper harvests every year.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

rich

Same sentence, swapped: The rich soil along the river produced bumper harvests every year.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

rocky
damp
fragrant

Where fertile turns up in the game

fertile is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where fertile is the trap

parchedadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is arid, in the sense "dried out from prolonged heat and lack of rain", and fertile is one of the three tiles that lose.
infertileadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is sterile, in the sense "incapable of reproducing", so fertile is there to be ruled out.

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The ring widens as it goes, from nature at Foothills outward to the whole bank.

tracknouncoursea line or route along which something travels or movesFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line trickleverbdribbleto flow slowly in a thin streamFoothillsHas a reason line underfootadverbbeneathon the ground beneath one's feetFoothillsHas a reason line universenounworldeverything that exists anywhereFoothillsHas a reason line undergrowthnounbrushdense low vegetation growing beneath trees in a forestTreelineHas a reason line vagabondadjectiverootlesswandering aimlessly without ties to a place or communityHigh Camp shownounappearancepretending that something is the case in order to make a good impressionFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line shunverbavoidto deliberately avoid or keep away from someone.FoothillsHas a reason line

A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

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