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Synonyms for shaken

The synonym for shaken recorded in this bank is jolted, in the sense "disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for shaken

joltedadjective, in the sense "disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and shaken carries one sense so far.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High Camp

disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock

The accident left her badly shaken.

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The true synonym

jolted

Same sentence, swapped: The accident left her badly jolted.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

restless
startled
uneasy

Where shaken turns up in the game

shaken is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 shaken

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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