Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for notice
Synonyms for notice: observation, acknowledge, mark and notification. 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 4 synonyms for notice
Interchangeable with notice in this sense
Audited under notice's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one notice carries in that sense.
- observationnoun, in the sense "the act of noticing or paying attention"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name notice as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- acknowledgeacknowledge is a verb in the sense "express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with"
- markmark is a verb in the sense "notice or perceive"
- notificationnotification is a noun in the sense "a request for payment"
one of these comes from notice's own entry in the bank, and three were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
the act of noticing or paying attention
He escaped the notice of the police.
The true synonym
observation
Same sentence, swapped: He escaped the observation of the police.
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 notice is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- card
- notification
- spot
Where notice turns up in the game
notice 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where notice is the trap
- mentionnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is credit, in the sense "a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage", and notice is one of the three tiles that lose.
- mentionnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is reference, in the sense "a remark that calls attention to something or someone", and notice is one of the three tiles that lose.
- markverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is commemorate, in the sense "celebrate by some ceremony or observation", with notice sitting one tile away.
Play notice
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so notice 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 thinking and knowing at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. notice carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.