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Synonyms for ulterior
The synonym for ulterior recorded in this bank is subterranean, in the sense "lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)". 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 ulterior
- subterraneanadjective, in the sense "lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)"
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 ulterior is audited in a second meaning.
lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
She suspected an ulterior motive behind his sudden kindness.
The true synonym
subterranean
Same sentence, swapped: She suspected an subterranean motive behind his sudden kindness.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where ulterior stands in the sentence above.
- posterior
- untold
- cryptic
Where ulterior turns up in the game
ulterior 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 ulterior is the trap
- unspokenadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is unsaid, in the sense "not made explicit", so ulterior is there to be ruled out.
Play ulterior
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ulterior reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Sorted by difficulty rather than by topic, which is what an untagged word has to go on.
One vocabulary, two jobs
ulterior 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.