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Synonyms for awestruck

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

Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High Camp

having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread

In grim despair and awestruck wonder.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

awed

Same sentence, swapped: In grim despair and awed wonder.

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 awestruck as it is used in the sentence above.

dumbstruck
ashen
enraptured

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