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Synonyms for desperately
The synonym for desperately recorded in this bank is urgently, in the sense "with great urgency". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for desperately
- urgentlyadverb, in the sense "with great urgency"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day desperately is audited in a second meaning.
with great urgency
The soil desperately needed potash.
The true synonym
urgently
Same sentence, swapped: The soil urgently needed potash.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where desperately stands in the sentence above.
- madly
- wildly
- violently
Where desperately turns up in the game
desperately is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where desperately is the trap
- hotlyadverb, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is heatedly, in the sense "in a heated manner", and desperately is on the board beside it.
Play desperately
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so desperately reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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desperately carries no theme tag, so the ring starts at Treeline and widens alphabetically.
One vocabulary, two jobs
desperately is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.