Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for classify
The synonym for classify recorded in this bank is sort, in the sense "arrange or order by classes or categories". 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 classify
- sortverb, in the sense "arrange or order by classes or categories"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day classify is audited in a second meaning.
arrange or order by classes or categories
How would you classify these pottery shards from the dig?
The true synonym
sort
Same sentence, swapped: How would you sort these pottery shards from the dig?
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.
- withhold
- secrete
- conceal
Where classify turns up in the game
classify 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 classify
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so classify 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.
Climb the library a rung at a time
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