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Synonyms for bitterly
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
extremely and sharply
It was bitterly cold.
The true synonym
piercingly
Same sentence, swapped: It was piercingly cold.
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 bitterly as it is used in the sentence above.
- miserably
- cruelly
- openly
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