States and conditions
Synonyms for plight
The synonym for plight recorded in this bank is predicament, in the sense "a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one". 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 plight
- predicamentnoun, in the sense "a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and plight carries one sense so far.
a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
The woeful plight of homeless people.
The true synonym
predicament
Same sentence, swapped: The woeful predicament of homeless people.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- troth
- handicap
- wrinkle
Where plight turns up in the game
plight 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 plight is the trap
- guaranteeverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is undertake, in the sense "promise to do or accomplish", and plight is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play plight
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so plight 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 ring widens as it goes, from states and conditions at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. plight carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.