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Synonyms for disconcerting
The synonym for disconcerting recorded in this bank is upsetting, in the sense "causing an emotional disturbance". 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 disconcerting
- upsettingadjective, in the sense "causing an emotional disturbance"
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 disconcerting is audited in a second meaning.
causing an emotional disturbance
His disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly.
The true synonym
upsetting
Same sentence, swapped: His upsetting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly.
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.
- deterrent
- frightful
- startling
Where disconcerting turns up in the game
disconcerting is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
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The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so disconcerting reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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