Events
Synonyms for emergency
The synonym for emergency recorded in this bank is pinch, in the sense "a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action". 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 emergency
- pinchnoun, in the sense "a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action"
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 emergency is audited in a second meaning.
a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
He never knew what to do in an emergency.
The true synonym
pinch
Same sentence, swapped: He never knew what to do in an pinch.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- surgery
- therapy
- clinic
Where emergency turns up in the game
emergency is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 emergency
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so emergency reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other events words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One word a day, five rungs, and a sentence under each
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