States and conditions

Synonyms for bankruptcy

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineStates and conditions

inability to discharge all your debts as they come due

The company had to declare bankruptcy.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

failure

Same sentence, swapped: The company had to declare failure.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for bankruptcy as it is used in the sentence above.

mischief
mayhem
sabotage

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Closest first: other states and conditions words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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