States and conditions
Synonyms for misery
The synonym for misery recorded in this bank is wretchedness, in the sense "a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune". 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 misery
- wretchednessnoun, in the sense "a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune"
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 misery is audited in a second meaning.
a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
The prisoners lived in constant misery and filth.
The true synonym
wretchedness
Same sentence, swapped: The prisoners lived in constant wretchedness and filth.
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.
- depression
- anxiety
- stitch
Where misery turns up in the game
misery is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 misery
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so misery 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 misery keeps.
One word a day, five rungs, and a sentence under each
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. The daily stack climbs from tier one to tier five, and every answer shows the meaning it was audited in.