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Synonyms for puzzled
The synonym for puzzled recorded in this bank is nonplussed, in the sense "filled with bewilderment". 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 puzzled
- nonplussedadjective, in the sense "filled with bewilderment"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and puzzled carries one sense so far.
filled with bewilderment
Puzzled that she left without saying goodbye.
The true synonym
nonplussed
Same sentence, swapped: Nonplussed that she left without saying goodbye.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where puzzled stands in the sentence above.
- bewitched
- breathless
- hypnotized
Where puzzled turns up in the game
puzzled is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 puzzled is the trap
- worriedadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is upset, in the sense "afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief", and puzzled is one of the three tiles that lose.
- enragedadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is apoplectic, in the sense "extremely angry", and puzzled is on the board beside it.
Play puzzled
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so puzzled 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 words at Summit, then their alphabetical neighbours.
One vocabulary, two jobs
puzzled 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.