People and roles

Synonyms for fanatic

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelinePeople and roles

a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)

My cousin is a fitness fanatic who runs every morning.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

fiend

Same sentence, swapped: My cousin is a fitness fiend who runs every morning.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for fanatic as it is used in the sentence above.

junky
rooter
loner

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Closest first: other people and roles words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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