States and conditions
Synonyms for situation
The synonym for situation recorded in this bank is position, in the sense "a condition or position in which you find yourself". 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 situation
- positionnoun, in the sense "a condition or position in which you find yourself"
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 situation is audited in a second meaning.
a condition or position in which you find yourself
He found himself in an impossible situation with no good choices.
The true synonym
position
Same sentence, swapped: He found himself in an impossible position with no good choices.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- dark
- control
- neighborhood
Where situation turns up in the game
situation is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 situation is the trap
- officenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is authority, in the sense "an administrative unit of government", and situation is one of the three tiles that lose.
- problemnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is trouble, in the sense "a source of difficulty", with situation sitting one tile away.
- sitenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is website, in the sense "a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web", with situation sitting one tile away.
Play situation
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so situation 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 situation keeps.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
situation 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.