Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for configuration
The synonym for configuration recorded in this bank is constellation, in the sense "an arrangement of parts or elements". 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 configuration
- constellationnoun, in the sense "an arrangement of parts or elements"
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 configuration is audited in a second meaning.
an arrangement of parts or elements
The outcome depends on the configuration of influences at the time.
The true synonym
constellation
Same sentence, swapped: The outcome depends on the constellation of influences at the time.
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.
- snare
- trap
- taste
Where configuration turns up in the game
configuration 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 configuration
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so configuration 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.
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