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Synonyms for downturn
The synonym for downturn recorded in this bank is downswing, in the sense "a worsening of business or economic activity". 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 downturn
- downswingnoun, in the sense "a worsening of business or economic activity"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and downturn carries one sense so far.
a worsening of business or economic activity
The market took a downturn.
The true synonym
downswing
Same sentence, swapped: The market took a downswing.
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.
- cascade
- degradation
- inclination
Where downturn turns up in the game
downturn is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play downturn
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so downturn reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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