States and conditions
Synonyms for imbalance
The synonym for imbalance recorded in this bank is instability, in the sense "a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium". 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 imbalance
- instabilitynoun, in the sense "a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for imbalance.
a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium
A hormonal imbalance.
The true synonym
instability
Same sentence, swapped: A hormonal instability.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where imbalance stands in the sentence above.
- balance
- wring
- quirk
Where imbalance turns up in the game
imbalance 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where imbalance is the trap
- gapnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is spread, in the sense "a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures", and imbalance is on the board beside it.
- gulfnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is disconnect, in the sense "an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)", and imbalance is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play imbalance
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so imbalance reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because states and conditions is the company imbalance keeps.
The same bank, read from both sides
imbalance is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.