States and conditions
Synonyms for stress
Synonyms for stress: strain, emphasis and accent. 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 3 synonyms for stress
Interchangeable with stress, one per sense
Audited under stress's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one stress carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name stress as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- accentaccent is a verb in the sense "put stress on"
two of these come from stress's own entries in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
He presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger.
The true synonym
strain
Same sentence, swapped: He presided over the economy during the period of the greatest strain and danger.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- accent
- focus
- jam
the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
He put the stress on the wrong syllable.
The true synonym
emphasis
Same sentence, swapped: He put the emphasis on the wrong syllable.
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.
- tension
- focus
- modulation
Where stress turns up in the game
stress is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. 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 stress is the trap
- accentnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is dialect, in the sense "the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people", and stress is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play stress
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so stress 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 stress keeps.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
stress is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.