Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for alive
Synonyms for alive: awake, live and animated. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for alive
Interchangeable with alive, one per sense
Audited under alive's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one alive carries in that sense.
- awakeadjective, in the sense "mentally perceptive and responsive"
- liveadjective, in the sense "capable of erupting"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name alive as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- animatedanimated is an adjective in the sense "having life or vigor or spirit"
The first group is filed under alive's own senses. The second reaches alive from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
mentally perceptive and responsive
Alive to what is going on.
The true synonym
awake
Same sentence, swapped: Awake to what is going on.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- active
- running
- working
capable of erupting
The volcano is very much alive.
The true synonym
live
Same sentence, swapped: The volcano is very much live.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot alive is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- awake
- smart
- green
Where alive turns up in the game
alive is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where alive is the trap
- liveadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is unrecorded, in the sense "actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing", so alive is there to be ruled out.
Play alive
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so alive 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 alive keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. alive carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.