Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for acquisition
The synonym for acquisition recorded in this bank is learning, in the sense "the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge". 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 acquisition
- learningnoun, in the sense "the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and acquisition carries one sense so far.
the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge
The child's acquisition of language.
The true synonym
learning
Same sentence, swapped: The child's learning of language.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for acquisition in the sentence quoted.
- accomplishment
- discrimination
- sorting
Where acquisition turns up in the game
acquisition 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 acquisition
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so acquisition reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because thinking and knowing is the company acquisition keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. acquisition carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.