Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for obstacle
The synonym for obstacle recorded in this bank is obstruction, in the sense "something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted". 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 obstacle
- obstructionnoun, in the sense "something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day obstacle is audited in a second meaning.
something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted
The poverty of a district is an obstacle to good education.
The true synonym
obstruction
Same sentence, swapped: The poverty of a district is an obstruction to good education.
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 obstacle is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- albatross
- straitjacket
- millstone
Where obstacle turns up in the game
obstacle 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 obstacle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so obstacle 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 thinking and knowing words at Ridgeline, 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. obstacle carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.