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Synonyms for threshold

The synonym for threshold recorded in this bank is doorstep, in the sense "the entrance or point of entry into a room or building". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for threshold

doorstepnoun, in the sense "the entrance or point of entry into a room or building"

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 threshold is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsPlaces

the entrance or point of entry into a room or building

She paused on the threshold before stepping inside.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

doorstep

Same sentence, swapped: She paused on the doorstep before stepping inside.

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 threshold is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

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Where threshold turns up in the game

threshold is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where threshold is the trap

gauntletnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is ordeal, in the sense "a severe test or ordeal one must get through", with threshold sitting one tile away.

Play threshold

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so threshold reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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