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Synonyms for gauntlet
Synonyms for gauntlet: ordeal and glove. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for gauntlet
Interchangeable with gauntlet in this sense
Audited under gauntlet's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one gauntlet carries in that sense.
- ordealnoun, in the sense "a severe test or ordeal one must get through"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name gauntlet as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- gloveglove is a noun in the sense "a protective covering for the hand, especially a thick armored one"
The first group is filed under gauntlet's own sense. The second reaches gauntlet from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
a severe test or ordeal one must get through
She faced a fresh gauntlet of hostile questions before the committee would back her bill.
The true synonym
ordeal
Same sentence, swapped: She faced a fresh ordeal of hostile questions before the committee would back her bill.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- threshold
- tribunal
- gavel
Where gauntlet turns up in the game
gauntlet 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 gauntlet
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gauntlet 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 competition words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. gauntlet carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.