Contact and joining

Synonyms for pluck

The synonym for pluck recorded in this bank is tweak, in the sense "pull or pull out sharply". 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 · verb · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for pluck

tweakverb, in the sense "pull or pull out sharply"

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

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineContact and joining

pull or pull out sharply

Pluck the flowers off the bush.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

tweak

Same sentence, swapped: Tweak the flowers off the bush.

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.

soak
hustle
hale

Where pluck turns up in the game

pluck 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 pluck is the trap

haulnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is draw, in the sense "the act of drawing or hauling something", so pluck is there to be ruled out.
soakverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is imbue, in the sense "fill, soak, or imbue totally", so pluck is there to be ruled out.

Play pluck

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pluck 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. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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One vocabulary, two jobs

pluck 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.

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