Qualities

Synonyms for vocal

The synonym for vocal recorded in this bank is outspoken, in the sense "given to expressing yourself freely or insistently". 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 · adjective · a wrong tile in 5 puzzles

The synonym for vocal

outspokenadjective, in the sense "given to expressing yourself freely or insistently"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day vocal is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineQualities

given to expressing yourself freely or insistently

A vocal assembly.

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

The true synonym

outspoken

Same sentence, swapped: A outspoken assembly.

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.

oral
pronounced
heroic

Where vocal turns up in the game

vocal 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 five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

4 of the 5 puzzles where vocal is the trap

songnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is call, in the sense "the characteristic sound produced by a bird", and vocal is on the board beside it.
bassadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is deep, in the sense "having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range", and vocal is one of the three tiles that lose.
compositionnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is piece, in the sense "a musical work that has been created", with vocal sitting one tile away.
songnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is strain, in the sense "the act of singing", and vocal is on the board beside it.

Play vocal

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so vocal 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. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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The same bank, read from both sides

vocal is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 5. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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