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Synonyms for assault
The synonym for assault recorded in this bank is onslaught, in the sense "a sudden, violent attack on a place or position". 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 assault
- onslaughtnoun, in the sense "a sudden, violent attack on a place or position"
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 assault is audited in a second meaning.
a sudden, violent attack on a place or position
By spring, the village had survived a full-scale assault on its northern wall.
The true synonym
onslaught
Same sentence, swapped: By spring, the village had survived a full-scale onslaught on its northern wall.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot assault is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- truce
- blockade
- retreat
Where assault turns up in the game
assault is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 assault
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so assault 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 actions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. assault carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.