Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for gist
The synonym for gist recorded in this bank is heart, in the sense "the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience". 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 gist
- heartnoun, in the sense "the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience"
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 gist is audited in a second meaning.
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
The gist of the prosecutor's argument.
The true synonym
heart
Same sentence, swapped: The heart of the prosecutor's argument.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- burden
- lore
- heresy
Where gist turns up in the game
gist 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 gist
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gist reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because thinking and knowing is the company gist keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. gist carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.