Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for grief

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineThinking and knowing

something that causes great unhappiness

Her death was a great grief to John.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

sorrow

Same sentence, swapped: Her death was a great sorrow to John.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for grief as it is used in the sentence above.

headache
nuisance
concern

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Closest first: other thinking and knowing words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

foundationnouncreationthe act of starting something for the first timeTreeline2 senses fundamentaladjectiveprofoundfar-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of somethingTreeline2 sensesHas a reason line graspnoungripan intellectual hold or understandingTreeline2 sensesHas a reason line assaynouncheckan appraisal of the state of affairsHigh CampHas a reason line associationnounconnectionthe process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imaginationTreelineHas a reason line assumeverbtaketake on a certain form, attribute, or aspectFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line lecturenoun, verbspeecha lengthy rebukeTreeline2 sensesHas a reason line lengthnoundurationcontinuance in timeTreelineHas a reason line

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