Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for habit
The synonym for habit recorded in this bank is wont, in the sense "an established custom". 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 habit
- wontnoun, in the sense "an established custom"
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 habit is audited in a second meaning.
an established custom
It was their habit to dine at 7 every evening.
The true synonym
wont
Same sentence, swapped: It was their wont to dine at 7 every evening.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot habit is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- institution
- hadith
- frame
Where habit turns up in the game
habit is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where habit is the trap
- usenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is exercise, in the sense "the act of using", so habit is there to be ruled out.
- qualmnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is misgiving, in the sense "an uneasy feeling of doubt about whether an action is right", and habit is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play habit
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so habit 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 Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. habit carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.