Qualities
Synonyms for lurid
The synonym for lurid recorded in this bank is shocking, in the sense "glaringly vivid and graphic". 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 lurid
- shockingadjective, in the sense "glaringly vivid and graphic"
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 lurid is audited in a second meaning.
glaringly vivid and graphic
Lurid details of the accident.
The true synonym
shocking
Same sentence, swapped: Shocking details of the accident.
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.
- mat
- eerie
- shameless
Where lurid turns up in the game
lurid 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 lurid is the trap
- tortuousadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is winding, in the sense "marked by repeated turns and bends", so lurid is there to be ruled out.
Play lurid
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so lurid 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
lurid 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.