Events
Synonyms for spectacle
Synonyms for spectacle: display and pageant. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for spectacle
Interchangeable with spectacle in this sense
Audited under spectacle's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one spectacle carries in that sense.
- displaynoun, in the sense "a visually striking public display"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name spectacle as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- pageantpageant is a noun in the sense "an elaborate public entertainment or display, often with costumes"
one of these comes from spectacle's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
a visually striking public display
Fireworks over the harbor turned into a dazzling spectacle.
The true synonym
display
Same sentence, swapped: Fireworks over the harbor turned into a dazzling display.
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 spectacle in the sentence quoted.
- controversy
- expense
- rumor
Where spectacle turns up in the game
spectacle 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where spectacle is the trap
- bonanzanoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is jackpot, in the sense "a sudden and unexpected source of wealth or good fortune", with spectacle sitting one tile away.
- processionnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is parade, in the sense "a group moving forward together in an orderly line", with spectacle sitting one tile away.
- tripnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is stumble, in the sense "an unintentional but embarrassing blunder", so spectacle is there to be ruled out.
Play spectacle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so spectacle reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because events is the company spectacle keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. spectacle carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.