Qualities
Synonyms for wanting
The synonym for wanting recorded in this bank is lacking, in the sense "inadequate in amount or degree". 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 wanting
- lackingadjective, in the sense "inadequate in amount or degree"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for wanting.
inadequate in amount or degree
Tested and found wanting.
The true synonym
lacking
Same sentence, swapped: Tested and found lacking.
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.
- eager
- scarce
- lustful
Where wanting turns up in the game
wanting is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 wanting is the trap
- mixedadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is interracial, in the sense "involving or composed of different races", so wanting is there to be ruled out.
Play wanting
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wanting 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 qualities is the company wanting keeps.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
wanting is an answer in 1 puzzle 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.