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Synonyms for polarity
The synonym for polarity recorded in this bank is sign, in the sense "having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)". 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 polarity
- signnoun, in the sense "having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and polarity carries one sense so far.
having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)
He got the polarity of the battery reversed.
The true synonym
sign
Same sentence, swapped: He got the sign of the battery reversed.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for polarity in the sentence quoted.
- inverse
- antagonism
- ambiguity
Where polarity turns up in the game
polarity 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 polarity is the trap
- inversenoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is opposite, in the sense "something inverted in sequence or character or effect", and polarity is on the board beside it.
Play polarity
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so polarity 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 relations at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. polarity carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.