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gauntlet
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of GAUNTLET
a test of faith, patience, or strength <before being adopted, school textbooks must often run the gauntlet of several local and state committees>
Related Words baptism, initiation; adversity, affliction, asperity, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, privation, tragedy, tribulation, trouble, vicissitude, woe; acid test, litmus test; challenge, complication, difficulty, grief, grievance, hardship, rigor; annoyance, discomfort, inconvenience, nuisance
Variants of GAUNTLET
gauntlet also gantlet
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