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Synonyms for gleaming
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
bright with a steady but subdued shining
The gleaming brass on the altar.
The true synonym
agleam
Same sentence, swapped: The agleam brass on the altar.
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 gleaming as it is used in the sentence above.
- glazed
- starry
- streaming
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