Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for shrewd
The synonym for shrewd recorded in this bank is sharp, in the sense "marked by practical hardheaded intelligence". 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 shrewd
- sharpadjective, in the sense "marked by practical hardheaded intelligence"
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 shrewd is audited in a second meaning.
marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
He was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow.
The true synonym
sharp
Same sentence, swapped: He was too sharp to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- conniving
- prudent
- devious
Where shrewd turns up in the game
shrewd 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where shrewd is the trap
- gullibleadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is naive, in the sense "easily deceived or tricked due to being too trusting", so shrewd is there to be ruled out.
Play shrewd
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so shrewd 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 thinking and knowing at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. shrewd carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.