Competition
Synonyms for grueling
The synonym for grueling recorded in this bank is arduous, in the sense "extremely demanding and exhausting, testing endurance". 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 grueling
- arduousadjective, in the sense "extremely demanding and exhausting, testing endurance"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and grueling carries one sense so far.
extremely demanding and exhausting, testing endurance
Only a handful of runners finished the grueling mountain ultramarathon.
The true synonym
arduous
Same sentence, swapped: Only a handful of runners finished the arduous mountain ultramarathon.
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 grueling is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- scenic
- casual
- communal
Where grueling turns up in the game
grueling 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 grueling
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so grueling 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 competition is the company grueling keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. grueling carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.