Food and drink

Synonyms for alcohol

The synonym for alcohol recorded in this bank is intoxicant, in the sense "a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The synonym for alcohol

intoxicantnoun, in the sense "a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and alcohol carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 5, SummitFood and drink

a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent

Alcohol (or drink) ruined him.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

intoxicant

Same sentence, swapped: Intoxicant (or drink) ruined him.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot alcohol is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

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Where alcohol turns up in the game

alcohol is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play alcohol

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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