States and conditions
Synonyms for sleepless
The synonym for sleepless recorded in this bank is watchful, in the sense "experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness". 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 sleepless
- watchfuladjective, in the sense "experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and sleepless carries one sense so far.
experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness
Lay sleepless all night.
The true synonym
watchful
Same sentence, swapped: Lay watchful all night.
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.
- preoccupied
- energetic
- hardworking
Where sleepless turns up in the game
sleepless 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 sleepless is the trap
- ferventadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is fiery, in the sense "characterized by intense emotion", and sleepless is one of the three tiles that lose.
- ferventadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is fervid, in the sense "extremely hot, burning, or glowing", and sleepless is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play sleepless
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sleepless 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 states and conditions is the company sleepless keeps.
One vocabulary, two jobs
sleepless 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.