Gauntlet
Gauntlet noun - A test of faith, patience, or strength.
Usage example: before being adopted, school textbooks must often run the gauntlet of several local and state committees
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Synonyms for Gauntlet
Ordeal
Ordeal noun - A test of faith, patience, or strength.
Usage example: the hikers were finally rescued after a three-day ordeal in the wilderness
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Related pairs
- trouble and gauntlet
- trouble and ordeal
- trial and gauntlet
- trial and ordeal
- complication and gauntlet
- complication and ordeal
- difficulty and gauntlet
- difficulty and ordeal
- misfortune and gauntlet
- misfortune and ordeal
- adversity and gauntlet
- adversity and ordeal
- affliction and gauntlet
- affliction and ordeal
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Most of the dragons (but not Garble) competing in the Gauntlet don armors, showing how dangerous the ordeal is.
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In addition, most of the dragons (except Garble) competing in the Gauntlet don armor, showing how dangerous the ordeal is.
Source: Armored Dragons - Tsubaki, as the true incarnation of her weapon, confronts Jin for the last of the three-fight gauntlet, and the exchange between the two before their battle puts this whole ordeal into this territory.
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