Groups and collections

Synonyms for herd

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

Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · noun

The sensenounTier 4, High CampGroups and collections

a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things

He had no wish to be lost in the common herd.

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

The true synonym

ruck

Same sentence, swapped: He had no wish to be lost in the common ruck.

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 herd as it is used in the sentence above.

colony
pod
steer

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Closest first: other groups and collections words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

branchnounsubdivisiona division of some larger or more complex organizationHigh CampHas a reason line caboodlenounlotany collection in its entiretyHigh CampHas a reason line jurisprudencenounlawthe collection of rules imposed by authorityHigh CampHas a reason line lawnounpolicethe force of policemen and officersFoothills layadjectivesecularcharacteristic of those who are not members of the clergyRidgeline lineagenounbloodthe hereditary derivation of an individualRidgeline rigidlyadverbstifflyin a rigid mannerHigh Camp rigorouslyadverbstrictlyin a rigorous mannerHigh Camp

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