States and conditions
Synonyms for servant
The synonym for servant recorded in this bank is handmaiden, in the sense "in a subordinate position". 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 servant
- handmaidennoun, in the sense "in a subordinate position"
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 servant is audited in a second meaning.
in a subordinate position
The state cannot be a servant of the church.
The true synonym
handmaiden
Same sentence, swapped: The state cannot be a handmaiden of the church.
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.
- subservience
- toy
- deputy
Where servant turns up in the game
servant 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 servant is the trap
- chiefnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is leader, in the sense "the person in charge of a group; its leader", and servant is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play servant
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so servant 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 states and conditions at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
servant 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.