Communication
Synonyms for harangue
The synonym for harangue recorded in this bank is excoriate, in the sense "to lecture someone at length in an aggressive, forceful way". 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 harangue
- excoriateverb, in the sense "to lecture someone at length in an aggressive, forceful way"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for harangue.
to lecture someone at length in an aggressive, forceful way
The manager would harangue the interns for arriving even a minute late.
The true synonym
excoriate
Same sentence, swapped: The manager would excoriate the interns for arriving even a minute late.
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.
- flatter
- console
- interview
Where harangue turns up in the game
harangue is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 harangue
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so harangue reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from communication at Summit outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. harangue carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.