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Synonyms for feverish

The synonym for feverish recorded in this bank is hectic, in the sense "marked by intense agitation or emotion". 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for feverish

hecticadjective, in the sense "marked by intense agitation or emotion"

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

The senseadjectiveTier 3, Ridgeline

marked by intense agitation or emotion

Worked at a feverish pace.

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The true synonym

hectic

Same sentence, swapped: Worked at a hectic pace.

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.

jumpy
speedy
superficial

Where feverish turns up in the game

feverish is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 feverish

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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. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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