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 meaning in the question, then tap the word that does NOT share it.
One pick per round — no second guesses; the correct answer lights up either way.
Every round closes with a short definition of the impostor, right or wrong.
The timer counts up from your first pick — a stopwatch for your own best, never a countdown.
"Review rounds" on the results screen replays every set with its explanation.
What counts in this quiz
10 rounds per run, drawn from a wider pool of meanings — happy, angry, brave, stubborn, rich and more rotate in, 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.
One point per impostor found; a perfect run is 10/10.
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.