States and conditions
Synonyms for predicament
Synonyms for predicament: quandary and plight. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for predicament
Interchangeable with predicament in this sense
Audited under predicament's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one predicament carries in that sense.
- quandarynoun, in the sense "a difficult, perplexing situation"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name predicament as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- plightplight is a noun in the sense "a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one"
The first group is filed under predicament's own sense. The second reaches predicament from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
a difficult, perplexing situation
Missing the last train home left her in quite a predicament.
The true synonym
quandary
Same sentence, swapped: Missing the last train home left her in quite a quandary.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot predicament is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- conquest
- commotion
- consensus
Where predicament turns up in the game
predicament is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 predicament
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so predicament 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 wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. predicament carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.