Emotions
Synonyms for chagrin
The synonym for chagrin recorded in this bank is embarrassment, in the sense "distress or embarrassment caused by failure or humiliation". 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 chagrin
- embarrassmentnoun, in the sense "distress or embarrassment caused by failure or humiliation"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for chagrin.
distress or embarrassment caused by failure or humiliation
To her chagrin, the mistake was printed on the front page.
The true synonym
embarrassment
Same sentence, swapped: To her embarrassment, the mistake was printed on the front page.
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 chagrin is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- excitement
- boredom
- relief
Where chagrin turns up in the game
chagrin 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 chagrin
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so chagrin 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 emotions is the company chagrin keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. chagrin carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.