States and conditions
Synonyms for turmoil
Synonyms for turmoil: tumult and upheaval. 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 turmoil
Interchangeable with turmoil in this sense
Audited under turmoil's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one turmoil carries in that sense.
- tumultnoun, in the sense "a state of great disturbance, confusion, or agitation"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name turmoil as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- upheavalupheaval is a noun in the sense "a violent or sudden disruptive change"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under turmoil and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
a state of great disturbance, confusion, or agitation
The country descended into turmoil after the contested election.
The true synonym
tumult
Same sentence, swapped: The country descended into tumult after the contested election.
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 turmoil in the sentence quoted.
- campaign
- coalition
- referendum
Where turmoil turns up in the game
turmoil is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where turmoil is the trap
- tediumnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is monotony, in the sense "a state of boredom caused by monotony", and turmoil is one of the three tiles that lose.
- excitementnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is exhilaration, in the sense "the feeling of lively and cheerful joy", and turmoil is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play turmoil
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so turmoil reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other states and conditions words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. turmoil carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.