'The Voice': Kelly Clarkson schooled by Blake Shelton and Ariana Grande's new drinking game

It's time to pull out the dictionary for "The Voice."  

Kelly Clarkson has the gift of gab, which comes in handy when trying to land singers on her team, and there is one word she loves to use in particular: "Navigate."

Clarkson uses "navigate" so much so that Blake Shelton and newcomer Ariana Grande started their own drinking game during the fifth night of Blind Auditions on Monday, clinking their mugs every time she utters the word.

"Blake and Ariana have decided that Kelly says 'navigate' a lot and they’ve started a little clinking game," John Legend explained. "I think Kelly is trying to navigate her way into a thesaurus."

Clarkson fired back: "That’s the word you use… fine, I'll look up some synonyms for 'navigate.' What do I have to do? Dumb it down? Read a book!"

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But Clarkson stuck to her guns.

"I think your voice is incredible and I have navigated a competition before," Clarkson told Ryleigh Plank following her emotional rendition of Demi Lovato's "Anyone."

"They have to cheers every time I say 'navigated,'" Clarkson added as Shelton and Grande clinked mugs. 

Grande also turned her chair for Plank. She said the 20-year-old's performance "brought me to tears. I was welling up. I felt that so deeply. It was so beautiful, I can tell that you were singing from a really, real place." They also bonded over being Florida natives. 

"I’ve been to Florida and made a horrible movie in Florida," Clarkson said, referring to 2003's "From Justin to Kelly." Grande objected, "That movie was iconic."

Clarkson's infamous pitch failed her because Plank joined Team Grande.

That didn't discourage Clarkson, however, from using the same exact pitch after Brittany Bree's powerful rendition of The Weeknd's "Call Out My Name."

You guessed it. "I know how to navigate a competition. I’ve won this show before," Clarkson said to the four-chair turn. But Shelton, the last original coach, said he's "been here forever and I’m not sure how much these others know." He proceeded to school the competition. 

Shelton said Clarkson "abandoned her home state (of Texas) and family." He said Legend "grew up singing in the church and he probably hasn’t been in a church now in (over) 30 years." Shelton added that Grande "can be the greatest coach we’ve ever seen on 'The Voice,' but she could be the worst."

Despite the character assassination, Bree picked Legend: "I’m feeling myself today."

Clarkson wasn't the only one who needed to pick up a dictionary Monday. 

Shelton told Grande he was "very happy" and "proud" of her for landing 16-year-old Sophia Bromberg over Legend and Clarkson following the teen's rendition of Conan Gray's "Heather." He added, "It’s like watching one of my kids graduate from high school."

Grande said Shelton could be "so charming and infantilizing" at the same time. 

"What’s infantilizing mean?" Shelton asked. Grande explained that it meant "belittling" and "condescending."

The final night of Blind Auditions resume on "The Voice" Tuesday (NBC, 8 EDT/PDT).