States and conditions
Synonyms for hardship
The synonym for hardship recorded in this bank is adversity, in the sense "a state of misfortune or affliction". 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 hardship
- adversitynoun, in the sense "a state of misfortune or affliction"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and hardship carries one sense so far.
a state of misfortune or affliction
A life of hardship.
The true synonym
adversity
Same sentence, swapped: A life of adversity.
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.
- gutter
- weakness
- sewer
Where hardship turns up in the game
hardship is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 hardship is the trap
- sewernoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is toilet, in the sense "misfortune resulting in lost effort or money", with hardship sitting one tile away.
Play hardship
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hardship reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
Free with ads on iPhone. Synonym Stack Plus removes them: $2.99 a week, $5.99 a month or $49.99 a year, with a 7 day free trial on the monthly and annual plans.
Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because states and conditions is the company hardship keeps.
The same bank, read from both sides
hardship 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.