Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for barrier
The synonym for barrier recorded in this bank is roadblock, in the sense "any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective". 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 barrier
- roadblocknoun, in the sense "any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for barrier.
any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective
Intolerance is a barrier to understanding.
The true synonym
roadblock
Same sentence, swapped: Intolerance is a roadblock to understanding.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- bolt
- snag
- stymie
Where barrier turns up in the game
barrier 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 barrier
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so barrier 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 thinking and knowing at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Climb the library a rung at a time
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