Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for compass
The synonym for compass recorded in this bank is reach, in the sense "the limit of capability". 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 compass
- reachnoun, in the sense "the limit of capability"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for compass.
the limit of capability
Within the compass of education.
The true synonym
reach
Same sentence, swapped: Within the reach of education.
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.
- circumstances
- wheel
- effect
Where compass turns up in the game
compass is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where compass is the trap
- journeynoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is trip, in the sense "an act of traveling from one place to another", and compass is one of the three tiles that lose.
- contextnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is setting, in the sense "the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event", with compass sitting one tile away.
- graspnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is grip, in the sense "an intellectual hold or understanding", with compass sitting one tile away.
- graspnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is hold, in the sense "understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something", with compass sitting one tile away.
Play compass
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so compass 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 Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
compass is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 5. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.