Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for proficiency
The synonym for proficiency recorded in this bank is technique, in the sense "skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity". 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 proficiency
- techniquenoun, in the sense "skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and proficiency carries one sense so far.
skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity
Practice greatly improves proficiency.
The true synonym
technique
Same sentence, swapped: Practice greatly improves technique.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for proficiency in the sentence quoted.
- versatility
- fluency
- seasoning
Where proficiency turns up in the game
proficiency is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 proficiency
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so proficiency 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 High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. proficiency carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.