Emotions

Synonyms for dander

The synonym for dander recorded in this bank is hackles, in the sense "a feeling of anger and animosity". 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 · noun

The synonym for dander

hacklesnoun, in the sense "a feeling of anger and animosity"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and dander carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 4, High CampEmotions

a feeling of anger and animosity

That remark really got my dander up.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

hackles

Same sentence, swapped: That remark really got my hackles up.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

chafe
umbrage
annoyance

Where dander turns up in the game

dander 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. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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