Qualities
Synonyms for ravenous
The synonym for ravenous recorded in this bank is voracious, in the sense "devouring or craving food in great quantities". 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 ravenous
- voraciousadjective, in the sense "devouring or craving food in great quantities"
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 ravenous is audited in a second meaning.
devouring or craving food in great quantities
Ravenous as wolves.
The true synonym
voracious
Same sentence, swapped: Voracious as wolves.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- parasitic
- predatory
- lupine
Where ravenous turns up in the game
ravenous is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 ravenous is the trap
- avidadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is zealous, in the sense "marked by active interest and enthusiasm", so ravenous is there to be ruled out.
- miserlyadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is mean, in the sense "characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity", and ravenous is on the board beside it.
Play ravenous
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ravenous reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company ravenous keeps.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
ravenous 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.