Emotions
Synonyms for fancy
Synonyms for fancy: fondness and illusion. 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 2 synonyms for fancy
Interchangeable with fancy in this sense
Audited under fancy's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one fancy carries in that sense.
- fondnessnoun, in the sense "a predisposition to like something"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name fancy as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- illusionillusion is a noun in the sense "something many people believe that is false"
The first group is filed under fancy's own sense. The second reaches fancy from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
a predisposition to like something
She has a fancy for old jazz records.
The true synonym
fondness
Same sentence, swapped: She has a fondness for old jazz records.
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.
- approval
- enchantment
- friendliness
Where fancy turns up in the game
fancy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 fancy is the trap
- theorynoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is possibility, in the sense "a tentative insight into the natural world", and fancy is on the board beside it.
- mistakenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is misunderstanding, in the sense "an understanding of something that is not correct", so fancy is there to be ruled out.
- brilliantadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is brainy, in the sense "having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence", and fancy is on the board beside it.
- dispositionnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is temperament, in the sense "your usual mood", and fancy is on the board beside it.
Play fancy
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fancy 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 emotions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
fancy 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.