Emotions
Synonyms for jolly
The synonym for jolly recorded in this bank is gay, in the sense "full of or showing high-spirited merriment". 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 jolly
- gayadjective, in the sense "full of or showing high-spirited merriment"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and jolly carries one sense so far.
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
The jolly crowd at the reunion.
The true synonym
gay
Same sentence, swapped: The gay crowd at the reunion.
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.
- roast
- marine
- frivolous
Where jolly turns up in the game
jolly 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where jolly is the trap
- boonnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is blessing, in the sense "a desirable state", and jolly is one of the three tiles that lose.
- drunkenadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is boozy, in the sense "given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol", with jolly sitting one tile away.
Play jolly
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so jolly reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because emotions is the company jolly keeps.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
jolly 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.