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Synonyms for pastoral
The synonym for pastoral recorded in this bank is bucolic, in the sense "relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle". 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 pastoral
- bucolicadjective, in the sense "relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and pastoral carries one sense so far.
relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
A pastoral economy.
The true synonym
bucolic
Same sentence, swapped: A bucolic economy.
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.
- restful
- ministerial
- priestly
Where pastoral turns up in the game
pastoral 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where pastoral is the trap
- restfuladjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is relaxing, in the sense "affording physical or mental rest", with pastoral sitting one tile away.
- priestlyadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is hieratic, in the sense "associated with the priesthood or priests", and pastoral is on the board beside it.
Play pastoral
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pastoral reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other words at High Camp, then their alphabetical neighbours.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
pastoral is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.