Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for arts
The synonym for arts recorded in this bank is humanities, in the sense "studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)". 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 arts
- humanitiesnoun, in the sense "studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and arts carries one sense so far.
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
The college of arts and sciences.
The true synonym
humanities
Same sentence, swapped: The college of humanities and sciences.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- engineering
- communications
- technology
Where arts turns up in the game
arts is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 arts is the trap
- engineeringnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is technology, in the sense "the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems", with arts sitting one tile away.
Play arts
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so arts reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other thinking and knowing words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
arts is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.