Qualities
Synonyms for difficult
The synonym for difficult recorded in this bank is unmanageable, in the sense "hard to control". 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 difficult
- unmanageableadjective, in the sense "hard to control"
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 difficult is audited in a second meaning.
hard to control
A difficult child.
The true synonym
unmanageable
Same sentence, swapped: A unmanageable child.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- manageable
- opposite
- miserable
Where difficult turns up in the game
difficult is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 difficult is the trap
- toughadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is sturdy, in the sense "substantially made or constructed", so difficult is there to be ruled out.
Play difficult
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so difficult reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company difficult keeps.
The same bank, read from both sides
difficult 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.