States and conditions
Synonyms for insecure
The synonym for insecure recorded in this bank is unsafe, in the sense "lacking in security or safety". 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 insecure
- unsafeadjective, in the sense "lacking in security or safety"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and insecure carries one sense so far.
lacking in security or safety
His fortune was increasingly insecure.
The true synonym
unsafe
Same sentence, swapped: His fortune was increasingly unsafe.
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.
- secure
- unpredictable
- slippery
Where insecure turns up in the game
insecure 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where insecure is the trap
- slipperyadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is tricky, in the sense "not to be trusted", and insecure is one of the three tiles that lose.
- secureadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is unafraid, in the sense "free from fear or doubt", so insecure is there to be ruled out.
- unsoundadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is bad, in the sense "physically unsound or diseased", and insecure is on the board beside it.
Play insecure
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so insecure 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 states and conditions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The same bank, read from both sides
insecure is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.