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Synonyms for awestruck

The synonym for awestruck recorded in this bank is awed, in the sense "having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for awestruck

awedadjective, in the sense "having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread"

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The senseadjectiveTier 4, High Camp

having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread

In grim despair and awestruck wonder.

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The true synonym

awed

Same sentence, swapped: In grim despair and awed wonder.

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.

dumbstruck
ashen
enraptured

Where awestruck turns up in the game

awestruck is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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