Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for clear

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb · Reason line included

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineThinking and knowing

make free from confusion or ambiguity

Clear up the question of who is at fault.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

enlighten

Same sentence, swapped: Enlighten up the question of who is at fault.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for clear as it is used in the sentence above.

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confusionnoundisarraya mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behaviorRidgeline conjecturenounspeculationa hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)Ridgeline credencenounacceptancethe mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as trueRidgelineHas a reason line culturaladjectiveethnicdenoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of peopleRidgeline staticadjectivestableshowing little if any changeTreeline2 sensesHas a reason line studynounworkapplying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)Foothills stylenounwayhow something is done or how it happensFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line satisfactionnounatonementcompensation for a wrongRidgeline

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