Qualities
Synonyms for proud
The synonym for proud recorded in this bank is gallant, in the sense "having or displaying great dignity or nobility". 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 proud
- gallantadjective, in the sense "having or displaying great dignity or nobility"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and proud carries one sense so far.
having or displaying great dignity or nobility
Proud alpine peaks.
The true synonym
gallant
Same sentence, swapped: Gallant alpine peaks.
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.
- decided
- fancy
- positive
Where proud turns up in the game
proud 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where proud is the trap
- ashamedadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is guilty, in the sense "feeling embarrassment or guilt over one's actions", so proud is there to be ruled out.
- secureadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is strong, in the sense "immune to attack", with proud sitting one tile away.
- forlornadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is dejected, in the sense "pitifully sad and lonely, as if abandoned", and proud is one of the three tiles that lose.
- deluxeadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is luxe, in the sense "elegant and sumptuous", so proud is there to be ruled out.
Play proud
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so proud reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The same bank, read from both sides
proud is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.