Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for basics
The synonym for basics recorded in this bank is bedrock, in the sense "principles from which other truths can be derived". 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 basics
- bedrocknoun, in the sense "principles from which other truths can be derived"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and basics carries one sense so far.
principles from which other truths can be derived
Let's get down to basics.
The true synonym
bedrock
Same sentence, swapped: Let's get down to bedrock.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where basics stands in the sentence above.
- dictate
- conservation
- logic
Where basics turns up in the game
basics is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 basics is the trap
- recordnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is book, in the sense "a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone", and basics is on the board beside it.
Play basics
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so basics 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 Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The same bank, read from both sides
basics 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.