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Synonyms for acquiring
The synonym for acquiring recorded in this bank is getting, in the sense "the act of acquiring something". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for acquiring
- gettingnoun, in the sense "the act of acquiring something"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for acquiring.
the act of acquiring something
I envied his talent for acquiring.
The true synonym
getting
Same sentence, swapped: I envied his talent for getting.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- retrieval
- proclamation
- uncovering
Where acquiring turns up in the game
acquiring is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play acquiring
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so acquiring reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from actions at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. acquiring carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.