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Synonyms for intense

The synonym for intense recorded in this bank is acute, in the sense "extremely sharp or severe". 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 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective · a wrong tile in 3 puzzles

The synonym for intense

acuteadjective, in the sense "extremely sharp or severe"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day intense is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, Treeline

extremely sharp or severe

Intense itching and burning.

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

The true synonym

acute

Same sentence, swapped: Acute itching and burning.

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.

loyal
tense
mighty

Where intense turns up in the game

intense is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where intense is the trap

outrageousadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is steep, in the sense "greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation", and intense is one of the three tiles that lose.
activeadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is participating, in the sense "taking part in an activity", and intense is one of the three tiles that lose.
awareadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is cognizant, in the sense "having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception", and intense is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play intense

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so intense reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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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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intense carries no theme tag, so the ring starts at Treeline and widens alphabetically.

listverb, nounnamegive or make a list ofFoothillsCommunication2 sensesHas a reason line loadverbchargeprovide (a device) with something necessaryFoothillsContact and joining2 sensesHas a reason line loadedadjectiveladenfilled with a great quantityTreeline logicaladjectivelegitimatebased on known statements or events or conditionsTreelineQualitiesHas a reason line loneadjectiveonlybeing the only oneTreelineQualities lopsidedadjectiveskeweduneven, with one side heavier, larger, or lower than the otherTreelineShapesHas a reason line loyaltynouncommitmentthe act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of actionTreelineActionsHas a reason line lumpnoun, verbhunka large piece of something without definite shapeTreelineNature2 sensesHas a reason line

One vocabulary, two jobs

intense is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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