Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for planning
The synonym for planning recorded in this bank is preparation, in the sense "the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening". 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 planning
- preparationnoun, in the sense "the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for planning.
the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening
His planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties.
The true synonym
preparation
Same sentence, swapped: His preparation for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties.
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.
- explanation
- thread
- trial
Where planning turns up in the game
planning is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 planning
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so planning 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. planning carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.