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Synonyms for listening
The synonym for listening recorded in this bank is hearing, in the sense "the act of hearing attentively". 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 listening
- hearingnoun, in the sense "the act of hearing attentively"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and listening carries one sense so far.
the act of hearing attentively
You can learn a lot by just listening.
The true synonym
hearing
Same sentence, swapped: You can learn a lot by just hearing.
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 listening is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- looking
- smelling
- tasting
Where listening turns up in the game
listening 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where listening is the trap
- tastingnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is taste, in the sense "a kind of sensing", so listening is there to be ruled out.
Play listening
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so listening reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from actions at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. listening carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.