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Synonyms for gulp
The synonym for gulp recorded in this bank is swig, in the sense "a large and hurried swallow". 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 gulp
- swignoun, in the sense "a large and hurried swallow"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and gulp carries one sense so far.
a large and hurried swallow
He finished it at a single gulp.
The true synonym
swig
Same sentence, swapped: He finished it at a single swig.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where gulp stands in the sentence above.
- huff
- gobble
- scuba
Where gulp turns up in the game
gulp is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where gulp is the trap
- nibbleverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is peck, in the sense "to eat with small, light bites, especially without much appetite", and gulp is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play gulp
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gulp reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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One vocabulary, two jobs
gulp is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.