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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.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

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.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineStates and conditions

a state of misfortune or affliction

A life of hardship.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

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.

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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.

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