Qualities
Synonyms for emotional
The synonym for emotional recorded in this bank is excited, in the sense "excessively affected by emotion". 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 emotional
- excitedadjective, in the sense "excessively affected by emotion"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and emotional carries one sense so far.
excessively affected by emotion
He would become emotional over nothing at all.
The true synonym
excited
Same sentence, swapped: He would become excited over nothing at all.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- mental
- spiritual
- characteristic
Where emotional turns up in the game
emotional is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where emotional is the trap
- constitutionaladjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is integral, in the sense "existing as an essential constituent or characteristic", and emotional is on the board beside it.
- irascibleadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is choleric, in the sense "characterized by anger", and emotional is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play emotional
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so emotional reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
One vocabulary, two jobs
emotional is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.