Communication
Synonyms for nasal
The synonym for nasal recorded in this bank is pinched, in the sense "sounding as if the nose were pinched". 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 nasal
- pinchedadjective, in the sense "sounding as if the nose were pinched"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and nasal carries one sense so far.
sounding as if the nose were pinched
A whining nasal voice.
The true synonym
pinched
Same sentence, swapped: A whining pinched voice.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where nasal stands in the sentence above.
- blurred
- pulmonary
- lax
Where nasal turns up in the game
nasal 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where nasal is the trap
- blurredadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is clouded, in the sense "unclear in form or expression", with nasal sitting one tile away.
- lateraladjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is sidelong, in the sense "situated at or extending to the side", and nasal is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play nasal
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so nasal 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 communication at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
nasal 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.