Emotions
Synonyms for harassment
The synonym for harassment recorded in this bank is torment, in the sense "a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented". 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 harassment
- tormentnoun, in the sense "a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for harassment.
a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
So great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors.
The true synonym
torment
Same sentence, swapped: So great was his torment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors.
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 harassment is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- frustration
- temper
- difficulty
Where harassment turns up in the game
harassment is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where harassment is the trap
- tempernoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is irritation, in the sense "a sudden outburst of anger", with harassment sitting one tile away.
Play harassment
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so harassment 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 emotions words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. harassment carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.