Emotions
Synonyms for anguish
The synonym for anguish recorded in this bank is torment, in the sense "severe mental or emotional suffering". 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 anguish
- tormentnoun, in the sense "severe mental or emotional suffering"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for anguish.
severe mental or emotional suffering
The mother cried out in anguish when she heard the news of the accident.
The true synonym
torment
Same sentence, swapped: The mother cried out in torment when she heard the news of the accident.
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 anguish in the sentence quoted.
- amusement
- boredom
- pride
Where anguish turns up in the game
anguish is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 anguish
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so anguish 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 ring widens as it goes, from emotions at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. anguish carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.