Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for control
Synonyms for control: master, command, dominance, operate and restraint. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 5 synonyms for control
Interchangeable with control in this sense
Audited under control's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one control carries in that sense.
- masterverb, in the sense "have a firm understanding or knowledge of"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name control as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- commandcommand is a verb in the sense "exercise authoritative control or power over"
- dominancedominance is a noun in the sense "the state that exists when one person or group has power over another"
- operateoperate is a verb in the sense "handle and cause to function"
- restraintrestraint is a noun in the sense "discipline in personal and social activities"
The first group is filed under control's own sense. The second reach control from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
have a firm understanding or knowledge of
Do you control these data?
The true synonym
master
Same sentence, swapped: Do you master these data?
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- hold
- drive
- pull
Where control turns up in the game
control is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where control is the trap
- cryingnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is tears, in the sense "the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)", with control sitting one tile away.
- holdverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is agree, in the sense "be in accord", and control is on the board beside it.
- situationnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is position, in the sense "a condition or position in which you find yourself", so control is there to be ruled out.
- restraintnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is simplicity, in the sense "lack of ornamentation", so control is there to be ruled out.
Play control
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so control 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 Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
control is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.