Events
Synonyms for humiliation
The synonym for humiliation recorded in this bank is mortification, in the sense "an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect". 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 humiliation
- mortificationnoun, in the sense "an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and humiliation carries one sense so far.
an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect
He had to undergo one humiliation after another.
The true synonym
mortification
Same sentence, swapped: He had to undergo one mortification after another.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for humiliation in the sentence quoted.
- clip
- piece
- contempt
Where humiliation turns up in the game
humiliation is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where humiliation is the trap
- bitnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is piece, in the sense "an instance of some kind", and humiliation is one of the three tiles that lose.
- clipnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is time, in the sense "an instance or single occasion for some event", with humiliation sitting one tile away.
- subversionnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is corruption, in the sense "destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty", with humiliation sitting one tile away.
Play humiliation
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so humiliation 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 events words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. humiliation carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.