Goofed bad on the bottom left with my third guess but it was ultimately advantageous as it revealed both a letter and the correct location of that letter in the top right.
Fortunately for me it was one of my 'default' guesses based on the first word.
My default is to use whatever of the 4 vowels appears from AUDIO and combine it with an E, and S,T,R are my first consonants, so UNITE is (well, was) a natural second guess in this case.