Four words, and three of them mean the same thing — elated, jubilant, ecstatic. The fourth means something else entirely, and often the opposite. Each round names the meaning ("Which of these words does NOT mean 'happy'?"); your job is to tap the traitor.
The best traps are words that sound like they fit: restive sounds restful but means fidgety, enervated sounds energized but means drained, impecunious sounds like old money and means broke. Every round ends with a one-line definition of the odd word, so each run doubles as a vocabulary workout.
How to play
Read the question. Then tap the word that does not belong.
You get one pick for each round. There are no second guesses.
The quiz marks your answer immediately. It also gives one line that explains the answer.
You start with three lives. The hearts in the top bar show the lives that you have.
A correct answer gives one point. A wrong answer costs one life.
A round that costs a life gives no points. The quiz continues with the next round.
The run ends when you lose the third life. It also ends when you play all the rounds.
Select "Review rounds" on the result screen to see each round that you played.
What counts in this quiz
The quiz holds 53 meanings — happy, angry, brave, stubborn, rich and more. One run can use all of them, with members and impostors reshuffled every play.
Synonyms are textbook-thesaurus matches for the headword as commonly used — no obscure sixth senses of a word are relied on.
Your score is the number of correct answers. The maximum score is 53 — every round in the quiz.
A wrong answer costs one life. You keep the points that you have.
The timer counts up from your first pick. It only separates equal scores on the leaderboard.
What's not included — and why
No stretch synonyms — if a word only arguably fits the meaning, it isn't used on either side of the round.
No double meanings that flip the answer — words whose common senses would put them on both sides are left out entirely.
Good to know
"Enervated" is so widely misused to mean energized that style guides keep a standing warning about it — it means drained of energy.
"Noisome" has nothing to do with noise: it means foul-smelling, from the same root as 'annoy'.
In American English "homely" means plain-looking, while in British English it's a compliment about cosiness — same word, opposite vibes across the Atlantic.