thicket
A thick group of bushes and small trees growing close together.
thicket in a sentence
- The deer vanished into a thicket so dense that we could not follow.
- Our football flew over the fence and landed deep in a thicket of brambles and bushes.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to thicket?
- Afield
- Bundergrowth
- Cmeadow
- Dclearing
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B: undergrowth. The other three mean the opposite of thicket.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to thicket?
- Aclearing
- Bundergrowth
- Ccopse
- Dscrub
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A: clearing. The other three mean nearly the same as thicket.
Words that mean something similar
undergrowth, copse, scrub
Words that mean the opposite
clearing, field, meadow
More words about places & settings
- tranquil: Completely calm, quiet and peaceful.
- treacherous: Dangerous and full of hidden risks, or unable to be trusted.
- undergrowth: The bushes and plants that grow thickly under trees.
- vacant: Empty, with nobody using it.
- verge: The edge of something, or the moment just before something happens.
- void: A completely empty space.
- yonder: Over there, some distance away.
- adjacent: Right next to something else.
More words to explore
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Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test