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Synonyms for sacrilegious
The synonym for sacrilegious recorded in this bank is profane, in the sense "grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred". 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 sacrilegious
- profaneadjective, in the sense "grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred"
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 sacrilegious is audited in a second meaning.
grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
It is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on.
The true synonym
profane
Same sentence, swapped: It is profane to enter with shoes on.
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.
- aberrant
- unseemly
- ignominious
Where sacrilegious turns up in the game
sacrilegious 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 sacrilegious is the trap
- profaneadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is secular, in the sense "not concerned with or devoted to religion", so sacrilegious is there to be ruled out.
Play sacrilegious
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sacrilegious 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 actions words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
sacrilegious 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.