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Synonyms for rigmarole

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · noun · Reason line included

The sensenounTier 5, SummitActions

a long and complicated and confusing procedure

All that academic rigmarole was a waste of time.

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The true synonym

rigamarole

Same sentence, swapped: All that academic rigamarole was a waste of time.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for rigmarole as it is used in the sentence above.

fingerprinting
computation
stiffening

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